What has happened

States that Executive Order 13957 as amended by Executive Order 14171 created Schedule Policy/Career, that such positions are filled on merit and not political affiliation, and that they are exempted from the adverse action procedures that apply to other career positions. The order transfers senior policy-influencing positions into the schedule and amends the Civil Service Rules to implement it.

Continues hiring controls established by Executive Orders 14170 and 14210.

Further amends Executive Order 12171 to exclude additional agency subdivisions from the federal labor-management relations program.

Suspends duty-free de minimis treatment under 19 U.S.C. 1321(a)(2)(C) for all countries, extending suspensions previously applied to specific countries.

Requires agency certification that a probationer will be an asset to the government before the employee becomes tenured, and provides that employment terminates at the end of the probationary period absent that certification, citing a 2005 Merit Systems Protection Board report.

States that disparate-impact liability holds that a presumption of unlawful discrimination exists where there are differences in outcomes among groups even without a facially discriminatory practice or discriminatory intent, and sets the policy of eliminating its use.

Section 1 declares a national emergency arising from persistent goods trade deficits, which the order states reached $1.2 trillion in 2024, and imposes tariffs described as reciprocal, citing non-reciprocal tariff rates and non-tariff barriers.

Determines that listed agencies and subdivisions have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative or national security work, and that Chapter 71 of title 5 cannot be applied to them consistently with national security requirements. Amends Executive Order 12171 to add them to the list of excluded agencies, which include the Departments of State, Defense and the Treasury with stated exceptions.

Section 1 states that closure of the Department of Education would improve program implementation and that the department must return what it calls bank functions to an entity equipped to serve students, noting a student loan portfolio of more than $1.6 trillion managed by fewer than 1,500 staff.

Directs agency heads, working with DOGE Team Leads, to undertake reductions in force and to limit hiring, with exemptions including immigration enforcement, law enforcement and national security.

Directs agencies to repeal existing regulations when issuing new ones and establishes a cost accounting approach to the regulatory budget.

Section 1 states that geographically assigned schools fail many children and notes that more than a dozen states have enacted universal K-12 scholarship programs allowing families rather than government to choose the setting.

Section 2 states that the policy is inconsistent with the medical, surgical and mental health constraints on individuals with gender dysphoria, and with shifting pronoun usage. Section 4 directs the Secretary of Defense to update the medical standards instruction within 60 days.

Section 2 directs the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of Homeland Security to make reinstatement available to members discharged for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine. Section 1 calls the mandate an unfair, overbroad and unnecessary burden and says redress is overdue.

The Federal Register records this order as revoking Executive Order 11246 of 1965, which required federal contractors to take affirmative action, along with three other orders. Section 1 states that institutions have adopted race and sex based preferences under the banner of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Section 2 reinstates Executive Order 13957, which created Schedule F, subject to amendments made by the order, and revokes Executive Order 14003. The order states that only 41 percent of civil service supervisors are confident they can remove an employee for serious misconduct.

Directs the preparation of a Federal Hiring Plan addressing merit-based hiring and the assessment of candidates.

Section 1 states the policy of revoking the previous Administration's orders. Its revocation list includes Executive Order 14020, which established the White House Gender Policy Council, along with dozens of others.

Section 6(b) disbands the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases, established under Executive Order 13990, and withdraws its guidance and documents including the February 2021 technical support document. The order also revokes thirteen prior executive orders and directs agencies to use what it calls the most robust methodologies and not ones that are arbitrary or ideologically motivated.

Section 3 imposes a 90-day pause on new obligations and disbursements of development assistance pending review for programmatic efficiency and consistency with foreign policy. Section 2 states that no further assistance shall be disbursed in a manner not fully aligned with the President's foreign policy.

Section 2 states the policy of recognizing two sexes, male and female, and that they are not changeable. Section 3(g) provides that federal funds shall not be used to promote what the order calls gender ideology and directs agencies to assess grant conditions accordingly. Section 4 addresses prisons and detention.

Section 1 states that capital punishment is an essential tool for deterring and punishing the most heinous crimes, and that officials who oppose it have sought to thwart the execution of lawfully imposed sentences.

Section 3 directs the Secretary of the Interior to evaluate changes to, including potential rescission of, Public Land Order 5150 of 1971, to place a temporary moratorium on activities under the June 2024 Ambler Road record of decision pending review, and to reinstate the July 2020 record of decision.