All of President Trump’s Executive Orders and Memoranda · 2017-10-18 · All of President...

All of President Trump’s Executive Orders and MemorandaPresident Donald Trump has issued executive orders and memoranda — which presidents increasingly use interchangeably and are equally legally binding — at a faster pace than former President Barack Obama from the beginning of their respective presidencies. Trump has wielded his executive power most often for issues related to energy and the environment, national security and trade.

March 8, 2017 | Updated Oct. 18, 2017

Trump’s and Obama’s total executive orders and memos published in the Federal Register, Jan. 20 to Oct. 17

Obama, 2009

Trump, 2017 67

53

Count of Trump’s executive orders and memos, by topic

JulyJuneMayAprilMarchFeb.

0

25

50

75

Oct.Sept.Aug.

Energy & environment 8

Health

Immigration 7

Technology 2

Regulations 5

National security 8

Other 5

Note: Total equals 66 because one memo was republished becauseof a filing discrepancy.

As of Oct. 17

Education 3

Executive branch 6

Justice 6

Labor 4

Trade 8

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By Janie Boschma, POLITICO Pro DataPointSource: Federal Register, POLITICO Pro staff reports

As of Oct. 18, 2017

TOPIC PUBLISHED CITATIONTYPE SUMMARYSTATUS

Substance and Status of Trump’s Orders and MemosModified, in litigationor no longer applicable Completed

In progress or ongoing

3/3/17 E.O. 13779Executive order Moves initiative on HBCUs to White House and creates board of advisers to increaseHBCU capacity and strengthen role of private sector and public-private partnerships

Energy andenvironment

Directs Interior secretary to streamline permitting for exploration of o�shore energy resource potential on the Outer Continental Shelf, prevents Commerce secretary from designating a marine monument unless expressly required or after an Interior review of resource potential, directs Commerce secretary to review all existing marine monuments and any potential energy or mineral resources within their boundaries, revokes E.O. 13754, directs Interior secretary to review an Obama-era rule regulating drilling on the Arctic OCS o� Alaska

E.O. 13795Executive order5/3/17

Calls on agencies to review anything that could burden energy production, especially oil, natural gas, coal and nuclear energy. Revokes E.O. 13653 and three of Obama's memoranda related to climate change, as well as the President's Climate Action Plan and another report on reducing methane emissions. Directs Interior secretary to review several oil and gas rules.


3/3/17 Directs the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers to review controversial Waters of the U.S. rule, which expanded the type of waterways protected under the Clean Water Act, and to issue a proposed rule to either revise or rescind it

E.O. 13778Executive order

1/30/17, 2/17/2017

82 FR 11129Memorandum Instructs the Army Corps of Engineers to conduct an expedited review and approval of requests to construct the Dakota Access pipeline

Directs Interior secretary to conduct review of national monuments established or modified since Jan. 1, 1996, especially any totaling 100,000 acres or more


1/30/17 E.O. 13766Executive order Requires chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Equality to determine whether requests for infrastructure projects are “high priority” within 30 days after request

1/30/17 82 FR 8659Memorandum Directs Commerce secretary to develop plan for new pipelines to be made with U.S.-produced materials and equipment

1/30/17 82 FR 8663Memorandum Invites TransCanada to resubmit its Keystone pipeline application and directs the secretary of State to make a decision within 60 days of receipt

Directs Education secretary to review rules or guidance amended by ESSA, rescinding or revising items that exercise federal control over areas subject to state or local control


Education Directs the Education secretary to prioritize STEM education, with a goal of awarding at least $200 million in grants every yearto promote STEM education, especially in computer science.

82 FR 454179/28/17 Memorandum

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As of Oct. 18, 2017

Substance and Status of Trump’s Orders and Memos

TOPIC PUBLISHED CITATIONTYPE SUMMARYSTATUSModified, in litigationor no longer applicable Completed


Calls on each agency head to submit a plan to reorganize to improve e�ciency, e�ectiveness and accountability


2/3/17 E.O. 13770Executive order Directs all appointees to sign an ethics agreement pledging not to engage in certain lobbying activities after their departure

2/2/17 82 FR 9119Memorandum Modifies list of regular attendees for NSC meetings to add White House chief strategist and homeland security adviser and to remove Energy secretary, representative to the U.N., OMB director, director of national intelligence and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Sta�

Prohibits Treasury secretary from taxing religious entities, directs agency heads to issue regulations to allow exemptions from o�ering preventive health services including birth control


1/25/17 82 FR 8493Memorandum Prohibits agencies from filling or creating positions, except military personnel and agency or department heads

Memorandum Delays the e�ective date of E.O. 13780, declaring it to go into e�ect on the same day and time injunctions are lifted or stayed

82 FR 279656/19/17

Memorandum Calls for enhanced vetting and full enforcement of all immigration laws82 FR 162794/3/17

Immigration Amends one of Obama's orders, removing directions to secretaries of State and DHS to ensure that 80 percent of nonimmigrant visa applicants are interviewed within three weeks of receiving their applications


Establishes President's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis to study the federal response and to recommend improvements, with a final report due Oct. 1


1/25/17 82 FR 8495Memorandum Restores the Mexico City Policy (also known as the global gag rule), which prohibits USAID funding for NGOs that o�er services related to abortion, such as counseling or referrals

1/24/17 E.O. 13765Executive order Authorizes HHS secretary and other agency heads with authority to waive, defer, grant exemptions from or delay implementation of the ACA's provisions or requirements

Executive branch

Authorizes the continuance of 32 federal advisory committees through Sept. 30, 2019E.O. 1381110/4/17 Executive order

Health Directs the HHS, Treasury and Labor secretaries to propose options to expand access to insurance plans that are exempt from many A�ordable Care Act requirements — association health plans; short-term, limited-duration insurance; and health reimbursement arrangements


As of Oct. 18, 2017

Immigrationcont’d.




Executive order Removes Iraq from previous list and now restricts U.S. entry to those seeking new visas from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen; directs secretary of State to suspend refugee travel under the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program and directs DHS secretary to suspend decisions on refugee applications

E.O. 137803/9/17

2/1/17 E.O. 13769Executive order Restricts U.S. entry for passport holders from seven Muslim-majority countries; directs the secretary of State to suspend the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for 120 days

1/30/17 E.O. 13767Executive order Directs DHS secretary to construct a wall on southern border and identify federal funding sources, and other measures to increase immigration enforcement

1/30/17 E.O. 13768Executive order Calls on agencies to deny federal funding to sanctuary cities, directs DHS secretaryto hire 10,000 additional immigration o�cers, authorizes state and local law enforcementto “perform the functions of an immigration o�cer” under DHS supervision

Directs the Labor secretary to propose regulations and provide funding to promote apprentice-ship programs, creates Task Force on Apprenticeship Expansion within Labor department


2/14/17 E.O. 13774Executive order Orders the DOJ to lead a review of laws and its grants related to the protection of law enforcement o�cers; requests recommendations for their enhancement

2/14/17 E.O. 13773Executive order Directs agencies to increase cooperation on and enforcement of transnational crime

2/14/17 E.O. 13775Executive order Establishes a succession order if the attorney general and/or other top DOJ o�cials are unable to fulfill their duties

2/14/17 E.O. 13776Executive order Orders the attorney general to establish a task force on reducing crime, especially “illegal immigration, drug tra�cking, and violent crime”

Revokes E.O. 13775 and instead calls on the U.S. attorneys for the Eastern District of Virginia, then Eastern District of North Carolina and then Northern District of Texas to fulfill leadership duties at DOJ if necessary (replacing Northern District of Illinois and Western District of Missouri)


Labor Discontinues the National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relations, directs heads of agencies to rescind anything that relates to the council

E.O. 1381210/4/17 Executive order

Justice Revokes Obama's EO 13688 establishing a working group to recommend limitations on the transfer of certain military equipment to law enforcement; and directs all agencies to rescind any subsequent policies or practices that were put into place


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As of Oct. 18, 2017




Revokes two of Obama's orders and a portion of a third that require agencies to confirm that entities fulfilling major federal contracts have not recently violated labor laws


2/7/17 82 FR 9675Memorandum Directs the Labor secretary to conduct a review of the Obama administration’s fiduciary duty rule and issue a proposed rule to revise or rescind it (implementation delayed until June 2017)

Regulations Directs Treasury secretary to review and identify all signficant tax regulations issued in 2016 that burden taxpayers, add "undue complexity" to tax laws or exceed the statutory authority of the IRS in a report to the president, due within 150 days


3/1/17 E.O. 13777Executive order Tasks the head of each agency to establish a task force to identify regulations for repeal, replacement or modification

2/8/17 E.O. 13772Executive order Directs Treasury secretary to notify the president within 120 days of the financial laws, treaties, regulations, guidance, reporting and record-keeping requirements, as well as other policies that run counter to administration’s “core principles” outlined in the order

Re-establishes the National Space Council to advise the president on space policy and strategyE.O. 13803Executive order7/7/17

2/2/17 82 FR 9125Memorandum Directs the Defense secretary to submit a plan for defeating ISIS

2/1/17 82 FR 8983Memorandum Directs Defense secretary to conduct readiness review, help develop fiscal 2017 budgetamendment and levels for fiscal 2018, submit action plan to president within 60 days

Delays lifting sanctions against Sudan by three months in return for good behavior, removes requirement for State Department to prepare annual progress report


Bans new transgender military recruits and funding for reassignment therapies, except for those who have already begun reassignment, until the Defense secretary “provides a recommendation to the contrary that I find convincing.” The Defense secretary will determine the status of current transgender service members.


Imposes new sanctions against the government of VenezuelaE.O. 138088/29/17 Executive order

National security,defense

Expands the scope of sanctionable entities and individuals in North KoreaE.O. 138109/25/17 Executive order

Promotes Cyber Command to a United Combatant Command, which in part allows the head of command to report directly to the Defense secretary, and directs the secretary to submit a plan on whether to split Cyber Command from the NSA


Laborcont’d.

As of Oct. 18, 2017




Regulationscont’d.

Directs the Commerce secretary and USTR to review every trade and investment agreement and all trade relationships with WTO members without free trade agreements where the U.S. runs "significant trade deficits in goods" and take "every appropriate and lawful action to address violations of trade law, abuses of trade law or instances of unfair treatment"


Directs each agency to propose policies to maximize the use of U.S.-made products in federal awards and contracts, especially steel, iron, aluminum and cement; directs Commerce secretary to issue guidance and for the secretary and USTR to study how trade agreements a�ect Buy American laws; requires a review of H-1B visa program


Directs Commerce secretary and USTR to submit a report on significant trade deficitsE.O. 13786Executive order4/5/17

Directs DHS secretary to develop a plan requiring some importers to provide security for anti-dumping and countervailing with bonds or other measures and to develop a plan for intercepting and disposing of inadmissible goods, grants DHS secretary authority to enforce intellectual property laws and to notify IPR holders of violations


1/25/17 82 FR 8497Memorandum Directs the administration to withdraw from the TPP and all related negotiations

Establishes the O�ce of Trade and Manufacturing Policy to advise on promoting growth, decreasing the trade deficit (has since been absorbed into National Economic Council)


2/3/17 E.O. 13771Executive order Requires agencies to identify two rules to eliminate for every new significant rule

1/30/17 82 FR 8667Memorandum Directs agencies to expedite reviews and approvals of proposals to construct manufacturing facilities; directs Commerce secretary to submit a plan to streamline federal permitting and to reduce regulations a�ecting domestic manufacturing

Establishes the American Technology Council to modernize federal IT and digital servicesE.O. 13794Executive order5/3/17

Technology Instructs agency heads to submit cyber risk management reports and the OMB director to submit a cybersecurity plan based on the findings of those reports


Requires an interagency report to be submitted within 270 days assessing the domestic manufacturing capacity, the defense industrial base and supply-chain resiliency


Trade Authorizes USTR to evaluate whether to investigate any of China's actions or policies “that may be harming American intellectual property rights, innovation, or technology development”


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As of Oct. 18, 2017




By Janie Boschma, POLITICO Pro DataPoint

Source: Federal Register, POLITICO Pro staff reports

Note: This graphic does not include memoranda that tend to be clerical in nature — certificiations, delegations and designations. * indicates action status could not be confirmed with corresponding agency

Other

Establishes the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity to study voting processes and registration and report on practices that enhance and undermine citizens' confidence in elections and on vulnerabilities that could lead to improper voting and fraud


Establishes an O�ce of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection at Veterans A�airsE.O. 13793Executive order5/2/17

Establishes the Interagency Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Prosperity to identify legislative, regulatory or policy changes that benefit rural areas


Establishes a Presidential Advisory Council on Infrastructure, which has since disbandedE.O. 138057/25/17 Executive order

Streamlines permitting and environmental reviews for major infrastructure projects, establishing “One Federal Decision,” which requires designating a lead federal agency to coordinate the permitting and approval process with other agencies


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