EO 13999
Protecting Worker Health and Safety
Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025
Directed OSHA and mine-safety officials to issue updated worker-protection guidance, consider emergency standards, focus enforcement and coordinate with state plans.
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EO 13998
Promoting COVID-19 Safety in Domestic and International Travel
Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025
Directed agencies to require masks across federally regulated transport and assess testing, quarantine and public-health measures for international travellers.
EO 13997
Improving and Expanding Access to Care and Treatments for COVID-19
Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025
Directed HHS, NIH, Defense and Veterans Affairs to accelerate COVID-19 treatment research, improve clinical-care capacity, address treatment affordability and study long-term effects.
EO 13996
Establishing the COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board and Ensuring a Sustainable Public Health Workforce for COVID-19 and Other Biological Threats
Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025
Established a White House testing board, directed expanded free and priority-population testing, and ordered plans for a larger public-health workforce and U.S. Public Health Job Corps.
EO 13995
Ensuring an Equitable Pandemic Response and Recovery
Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025
Created the COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force and directed agencies to identify and reduce unequal barriers to pandemic care, vaccination, testing and recovery resources.
EO 13994
Ensuring a Data-Driven Response to COVID-19 and Future High-Consequence Public Health Threats
Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025
Directed federal coordination of COVID-19 data collection, public dashboards, data standards and equity-focused reporting.
EO 13993
Revision of Civil Immigration Enforcement Policies and Priorities
Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025
Revoked EO 13768 and directed review of civil immigration enforcement policies toward Biden administration priorities and values.
EO 13992
Revocation of Certain Executive Orders Concerning Federal Regulation
Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025
Revoked January 20, 2025 by EO 14148 and EO 14154; earlier agency guidance-rule rescissions required separate actions under applicable law.
EO 13991
Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing
Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025
Required masks, distancing and other CDC-aligned measures in federal buildings and on federal lands and created the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force.
EO 13990
Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis
Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025
Directed agencies to review Trump-era environmental actions, restored climate analytical policy, revoked the Keystone XL permit and reinstated Arctic and monument-related protections.
EO 13989
Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Personnel
Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025
Required Biden administration appointees to sign an ethics pledge covering gifts, lobbying, revolving-door restrictions and hiring practices.
EO 13988
Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation
Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025
Directed agencies to apply the Supreme Court’s Bostock reasoning when enforcing federal laws prohibiting sex discrimination.
EO 13987
Organizing and Mobilizing the United States Government To Provide a Unified and Effective Response To Combat COVID-19 and To Provide United States Leadership on Global Health and Security
Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025
Created White House COVID-19 response leadership and directed a government-wide pandemic strategy, public briefings, equity work and international coordination.
EO 13986
Ensuring a Lawful and Accurate Enumeration and Apportionment Pursuant to the Decennial Census
Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025
Required apportionment to use the total resident population determined by the census without excluding people based on immigration status.
EO 13985
Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government
Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025
Directed agencies to assess barriers facing underserved communities, produce equity plans and improve data, engagement and allocation of federal resources.
EO 13984
Taking Additional Steps To Address the National Emergency With Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber- Enabled Activities
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Directed Commerce to propose identity-verification and special-measure rules for foreign users of United States cloud infrastructure services to address malicious cyber activity.
EO 13983
Revocation of Executive Order 13770
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Revoked EO 13770’s appointee ethics pledge effective noon January 20, 2021; OGE subsequently removed the old pledge from its compliance form.
EO 13982
Care of Veterans With Service in Uzbekistan
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Directed VA to consider care eligibility for veterans who served in Uzbekistan and Defense to study exposures at K-2; VA later addressed Uzbekistan exposure in a 2021 rule.
EO 13981
Protecting the United States From Certain Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Directed agencies to review procurement and use of drones linked to foreign adversaries and asked FAA to propose restrictions near sensitive sites.
EO 13980
Protecting Americans From Overcriminalization Through Regulatory Reform
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Revoked by EO 14029 on May 14, 2021. Its rulemaking/referral guidance had important exceptions; the later EO 14294 created separate inventory and reporting duties.
EO 13979
Ensuring Democratic Accountability in Agency Rulemaking
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
EO 14018 revoked this senior-appointee rulemaking order on February 24, 2021, before its separate 90-day, 120-day and 180-day review periods elapsed.
EO 13978
Building the National Garden of American Heroes
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Amended the plan for a National Garden of American Heroes, including the selection of a site and figures to be honored.
EO 13977
Protecting Law Enforcement Officers, Judges, Prosecutors, and Their Families
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Directed federal reviews and protective measures concerning threats to law-enforcement officers, judges, prosecutors and their families.
EO 13976
Establishing the Wildland Fire Management Policy Committee
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Created an interagency committee to recommend federal wildland-fire policy changes and required a report within 180 days.
EO 13975
Encouraging Buy American Policies for the United States Postal Service
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Encouraged the Postal Service to consider stronger domestic-purchase preferences in its own procurement rules after related federal rulemaking.
EO 13974
Amending Executive Order 13959 — Addressing the Threat From Securities Investments That Finance Communist Chinese Military Companies
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Amended EO 13959's securities restrictions, including the divestment period, covered-company definitions and meaning of transaction.
EO 13973
Providing an Order of Succession Within the Environmental Protection Agency
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Set an EPA order of succession below the Deputy Administrator and revoked the agency's earlier succession order.
EO 13972
Promoting Small Modular Reactors for National Defense and Space Exploration
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Directed Defense to plan small-reactor demonstrations at a military installation and promoted advanced reactors for defense and space missions.
EO 13971
Addressing the Threat Posed by Applications and Other Software Developed or Controlled by Chinese Companies
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Prohibited specified transactions with people behind listed Chinese-connected software applications and authorized Commerce to implement the restrictions, subject to law.
EO 13970
Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Set adjusted pay schedules for federal civilian employees, senior executives, elected officials, judges and uniformed service members.
EO 13969
Expanding Educational Opportunity Through School Choice
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Directed HHS to allow eligible Community Services Block Grant funds to support emergency learning scholarships for disadvantaged children without in-person schooling, consistent with law.
EO 13968
Promoting Redemption of Savings Bonds
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Directed Treasury to digitize records of matured, unredeemed savings bonds, improve its Treasury Hunt search and study redemption barriers.
EO 13967
Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Set a preference for traditional civic architecture in covered federal buildings and created a council to advise on federal building design.
EO 13966
Increasing Economic and Geographic Mobility
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Asked agencies to review occupational-licensing barriers and report changes and opportunities for state, territorial and tribal reform.
EO 13965
Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on December 24, 2020
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Closed most federal executive departments and agencies on December 24, 2020, while allowing essential offices to remain open.
EO 13964
Rebranding United States Foreign Assistance To Advance American Influence
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
EO 14029 revoked the single-logo aid-marking order on May 14, 2021. Its original rule/report clocks and waivers were distinct from statutory branding requirements and the OIG audit.
EO 13963
Providing an Order of Succession Within the Department of Defense
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Set the order in which eligible Defense Department officials may act as Secretary when that office is vacant or its holder cannot serve.
EO 13962
Ensuring Access to United States Government COVID-19 Vaccines
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Set a policy of prioritizing U.S. access to government-procured COVID-19 vaccines, with HHS and Defense coordination under Operation Warp Speed.
EO 13961
Governance and Integration of Federal Mission Resilience
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Adopted a federal mission-resilience strategy and created an executive committee to coordinate continuity of essential government functions.
EO 13960
Promoting the Use of Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in the Federal Government
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Set principles for federal agencies' use of artificial intelligence and directed inventories, risk management and government-wide guidance.
EO 13959
Addressing the Threat From Securities Investments That Finance Communist Chinese Military Companies
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Prohibited specified United States securities transactions involving companies designated as connected to China's military, with divestment and implementation rules.
EO 13958
Establishing the President's Advisory 1776 Commission
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Directed Education to establish a 1776 Commission on United States founding history and to prioritize specified civic-education resources.
EO 13957
Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Created Schedule F for certain career positions with policy-making or policy-advocating duties and directed agencies to identify covered positions.
EO 13956
Modernizing America's Water Resource Management and Water Infrastructure
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Established a federal Water Subcabinet to coordinate water-resource management and infrastructure; EPA later designated agency representatives to implement the order.
EO 13955
Establishing the One Trillion Trees Interagency Council
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Established an interagency council to coordinate federal tree growing, restoration and conservation work under the One Trillion Trees initiative.
EO 13954
Saving Lives Through Increased Support for Mental- and Behavioral-Health Needs
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Created a Coronavirus Mental Health Working Group to coordinate federal suicide-prevention, substance-use and behavioral-health measures during the pandemic.
EO 13953
Addressing the Threat to the Domestic Supply Chain From Reliance on Critical Minerals From Foreign Adversaries and Supporting the Domestic Mining and Processing Industries
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Declared an emergency over reliance on critical minerals from foreign adversaries and directed an Interior review and measures to support domestic mining and processing.
EO 13952
Protecting Vulnerable Newborn and Infant Children
Donald J. Trump · 2017–2021
Directed HHS to inform federally funded programs of existing legal duties to provide medically appropriate care to infants born alive, including premature or disabled infants.