Additional Recissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions

Executive Orders

TLDR

This executive order revokes 18 additional Biden-era executive actions across multiple policy areas including COVID-19 response, foreign policy, LGBTQ+ rights, minimum wage, energy, defense production, biotechnology, arms transfers, labor standards, tribal funding, and workforce investments, continuing the Trump administration’s January 2025 rescission of 78 previous presidential orders.

President Trump has issued a new executive order on March 14, 2025, continuing the rescission of executive actions from the previous administration. This order builds upon Executive Order 14148 from January 20, 2025, which initially revoked 78 Presidential orders and memoranda issued by President Biden.

The new order revokes 18 additional executive actions, covering a wide range of policy areas:

  1. Public health response to COVID-19
  2. Foreign policy and national security
  3. LGBTQ+ rights
  4. Federal contractor minimum wage
  5. Energy supply and production
  6. Defense Production Act invocations
  7. Biotechnology and biomanufacturing
  8. Arms transfer policy
  9. Worker empowerment and labor standards
  10. Tribal nation funding and self-determination
  11. Apprenticeships and labor-management forums
  12. Investments in American workers

This order aligns with the Trump administration’s stated goal of “restoring common sense to the Federal Government and unleashing the potential of American citizens”. It continues the pattern of undoing policies implemented during the Biden administration, particularly those related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), climate regulations, and certain economic policies.

The order maintains standard provisions ensuring it does not impair existing legal authorities or create new enforceable rights. As with previous orders, this action is likely to have significant implications across various sectors and policy areas, potentially reshaping federal priorities and programs established during the previous administration.

The White House March 14, 2025

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1.

Purpose.

In Executive Order 14148 of January 20, 2025 (Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions), I rescinded 78 Presidential orders and memoranda issued by then-President Biden. I also directed the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs to compile lists of additional orders, memoranda, and proclamations issued by the prior administration that should be rescinded. I have determined that the following additional rescissions are necessary to advance the policy of the UnitedStates to restore common sense to the Federal Government and unleash the potential of American citizens.

Sec. 2.

Revocation of Orders and Actions. The following executive actions are hereby revoked:

(a) Executive Order 13994 of January 21, 2021 (Ensuring a Data-Driven Response to COVID-19 and Future High-Consequence Public Health Threats).

(b) National Security Memorandum 3 of February 4, 2021 (Revitalizing America’s Foreign Policy and National Security Workforce, Institutions, and Partnerships).

© Presidential Memorandum of February 4, 2021 (Advancing the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons Around the World).

(d) Executive Order 14026 of April 27, 2021 (Increasing the Minimum Wage for Federal Contractors).

(e) Presidential Memorandum of March 31, 2022 (Finding of a Severe Energy Supply Interruption).

(f) Presidential Determination 2022-13 of May 18, 2022 (Delegating Authority Under the Defense Production Act to Ensure an Adequate Supply of Infant Formula).

(g) Presidential Determination 2022-15 of June 6, 2022 (Presidential Determination Pursuant to Section 303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, on Solar Photovoltaic Modules and Module Components).

(h) Presidential Determination 2022-16 of June 6, 2022 (Presidential Determination Pursuant to Section 303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, on Insulation).

(i) Presidential Determination 2022-17 of June 6, 2022 (Presidential Determination Pursuant to Section 303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, on Electrolyzers, Fuel Cells, and Platinum Group Metals).

(j) Presidential Determination 2022-18 of June 6, 2022 (Presidential Determination Pursuant to Section 303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, on Electric Heat Pumps).

(k) Executive Order 14081 of September 12, 2022 (Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American Bioeconomy).

(l) Presidential Memorandum of January 17, 2023 (Delegation of Authority Under Section 6501(b)(2) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022).

(m) National Security Memorandum 18 of February 23, 2023 (United States Conventional Arms Transfer Policy).

(n) Presidential Memorandum of February 27, 2023 (Presidential Waiver of Statutory Requirements Pursuant to Section 303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, on Department of Defense Supply Chains Resilience).

(o) Presidential Memorandum of November 16, 2023 (Advancing Worker Empowerment, Rights, and High Labor Standards Globally).

(p) Executive Order 14112 of December 6, 2023 (Reforming Federal Funding and Support for Tribal Nations to Better Embrace Our Trust Responsibilities and Promote the Next Era of Tribal Self-Determination).

(q) Executive Order 14119 of March 6, 2024 (Scaling and Expanding the Use of Registered Apprenticeships in Industries and the Federal Government and Promoting Labor-Management Forums).

® Executive Order 14126 of September 6, 2024 (Investing in America and Investing in American Workers).

Sec. 3.

General Provisions.

(a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

© This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

DONALD J. TRUMP

THE WHITE HOUSE,
March 14, 2025