Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity (Trump EO Tracker)

The executive order directs the Secretary of Commerce to conduct an investigation pursuant to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 regarding “the effects on national security of imports of copper in all forms,” including scrap copper and derivative products.  In undertaking this investigation, the President ordered the Secretary of Commerce to consider the following factors:

The EO announces a policy of the United States to put patients first and ensure they have the necessary information to make well-informed healthcare decisions. The order builds upon Executive Order 13877 (Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare to Put Patients First) of June 24, 2019, and directs Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to take all necessary and appropriate action to implement rapidly and enforce the healthcare price transparency regulations issued pursuant to that order within 90 days. 

Commences a reduction in the elements of the Federal bureaucracy that the President has determined are unnecessary. The non-statutory components and functions of several governmental entities shall be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law. 

It shall be the policy of the executive branch to ensure Presidential supervision and control of the entire executive branch. Additionally, all executive departments and agencies, including independent agencies, are required to submit for review all proposed and final significant regulatory actions to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the Executive Office of the President before publication in the Federal Register. 

Directs agency heads, in coordination with their Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team lead and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director, to initiate a process to review all agency regulations and rescind those deemed unconstitutional, unlawful, or overly burdensome (including on private parties and small businesses). Focuses on rules lacking clear statutory authority, imposing considerable costs, or hindering innovation and economic development. Grants agency heads discretion to terminate enforcement proceedings that agency heads believe do not comply with the law or Administration policy. Requires the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) and DOGE team leads to assess new regulations, with OIRA developing a unified regulatory agenda to rescind or modify identified rules, and mandates agency heads to submit a list of such regulations within 60 days to the OIRA Administrator.

Requires a variety of reports and recommendations to be delivered to the President by April 1, 2025: on the causes of the persistent trade deficit, how to establish the External Revenue Service

The Order rescinds all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices or programs across all executive departments and agencies. It also revokes the following executive actions: Executive Order 12898 of February 11, 1994 (Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations); Executive Order 13583 of August 18, 2011 (Establishing a Coordinated Government-wide Initiative to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal Workforce); Executive Order 13672 of July 21, 2014 (Further Amendments to Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government, and Executive Order 11246, Equal Employment Opportunity); The Presidential Memorandum of October 5, 2016 (Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in the National Security Workforce); and Executive Order 11246 of September 24, 1965 (Equal Employment Opportunity). Agencies must also work to end DEI initiatives in the private sector in areas of their jurisdiction.