Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing (Trump EO Tracker)

March 6 update: Amendment posted adjusting tariffs for automotive parts and potash.

March 6 update: Amendment posted adjusting tariffs for automotive parts and potash.

The “Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge” will be renamed as the “Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge” to honor Jocelyn Nungaray, whose life was tragically cut short on June 17, 2024, when she was brutally murdered in Houston, Texas. The Secretary of the Interior, within 30 days, shall provide guidance to ensure all Federal references to the Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge, including on agency maps, contracts, and other documents and communications, reflect its renaming. 

This order designates English as the official language of the United States. Nothing in this order, however, requires or directs any change in the services provided by any agency. Agency heads are not required to amend, remove, or otherwise stop production of documents, products, or other services prepared or offered in languages other than English.    

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 the national security of imports of timber, lumber, and their derivative products,” such as “paper products, furniture, and cabinetry.”  In undertaking this investigation, the President ordered the Secretary of Commerce to consider the following factors: 

This order revises federal policies to increase domestic timber production.  All relevant agencies shall eliminate, to the maximum extent permissible by law, all undue delays within their respective permitting processes related to timber production. Within 30 days of this executive order, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall issue new or update guidance regarding tools necessary to increase timber production, reduce timber delivery time, and decrease timber supply uncertainty. Within 60 days of this executive order, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce must establish a strategy to improve the speed of approving forestry projects. Within 90 days of this executive order, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture are directed to submit a plan to the President that establishes a target for the annual amount of timber to be offered for sale from Federal lands each year, over the next four years. Within 120 days of this executive order, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture should complete the Whitebark Pine Rangewide Programmatic Consultation. Within 180 days of this executive order, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture should adopt categorical exclusions to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act and reduce unnecessarily lengthy processes and costs related to approvals for timber production, forest management, and wildfire risk reduction treatments. Within 280 days of this executive order, the Secretary of the Interior shall establish new categorical exclusions for timber thinning and re-establish categorical exclusions for timber salvage activities.

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:

This order directs agency heads along with their DOGE team lead to build a centralized system within each agency to record every payment issued by the agency pursuant to contracts and grants, as well as a system that documents approval for federally funded travel for conferences or other non-essential travel.