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EO 14095

Increasing Access to High-Quality Care and Supporting Caregivers

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Directed agencies to expand access to child care, home-based care, long-term care and support for family caregivers and the care workforce using existing programs and funding.

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EO 14094

Modernizing Regulatory Review

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Amended the centralized regulatory-review process by raising the economic-significance threshold, emphasizing distributional effects and directing broader public participation and analytical modernization.

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EO 14093

Prohibition on Use by the United States Government of Commercial Spyware That Poses Risks to National Security

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Prohibited federal operational use of commercial spyware posing counterintelligence, security or human-rights risks and required agencies to apply due-diligence safeguards and reporting.

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EO 14092

Reducing Gun Violence and Making Our Communities Safer

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Directed agencies to increase background-check compliance, promote safe storage and red-flag laws, improve firearm-loss reporting, support survivors and accelerate implementation of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.

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EO 14091

Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Expanded the administration's equity-planning framework, requiring annual agency plans, stronger community engagement, equitable procurement and grant practices, and improved demographic data.

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EO 14090

Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Implemented 2023 civilian and uniformed-service pay adjustments and set executive, judicial and senior pay schedules under annual statutory authority.

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EO 14089

Establishing the President's Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement in the United States

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Created an advisory council to recommend ways to deepen US–Africa ties through diaspora engagement in trade, investment, democracy, health, climate, education and culture.

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EO 14088

Taking Additional Steps To Address the National Emergency With Respect to the Situation in Nicaragua

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Expanded Nicaragua sanctions to authorize restrictions involving its gold sector, trade and investment and broadened designation criteria for repression, corruption and destabilizing conduct.

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EO 14087

Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for Americans

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Directed HHS to consider Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation models that could lower prescription-drug costs, complementing the Inflation Reduction Act.

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EO 14086

Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Required necessity, proportionality, privacy and civil-liberties safeguards for signals intelligence and created a two-level redress mechanism including the Data Protection Review Court.

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EO 14085

Expanding Eligibility for Certain Military Decorations and Awards

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Expanded eligibility for specified military decorations by treating certain commissioned officers of the Public Health Service and NOAA Corps more like armed-forces personnel when serving with or under military command.

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EO 14084

Promoting the Arts, the Humanities, and Museum and Library Services

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Re-established the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and directed coordination across federal cultural agencies, museums and libraries.

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EO 14083

Ensuring Robust Consideration of Evolving National Security Risks by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Directed CFIUS to consider supply-chain resilience, technological leadership, aggregate investment trends, cybersecurity and sensitive personal data when reviewing covered transactions.

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EO 14082

Implementation of the Energy and Infrastructure Provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Created a White House office and interagency process to coordinate Inflation Reduction Act clean-energy, infrastructure, environmental and resilience spending.

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EO 14081

Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American Bioeconomy

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Directed agencies to expand domestic biomanufacturing, research, data infrastructure, workforce, procurement and biosafety while reducing supply-chain dependence.

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EO 14080

Implementation of the CHIPS Act of 2022

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Created a CHIPS Implementation Steering Council to coordinate semiconductor incentives, research funding, workforce, supply-chain security and national-security safeguards under the CHIPS and Science Act.

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EO 14079

Securing Access to Reproductive and Other Healthcare Services

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Built on EO 14076 by directing action on emergency medical care, interstate travel, provider safety, research and potential Medicaid support for patients traveling for lawful reproductive care.

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EO 14078

Bolstering Efforts To Bring Hostages and Wrongfully Detained United States Nationals Home

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Authorized sanctions against persons responsible for hostage-taking or wrongful detention and directed agencies to strengthen support, intelligence sharing and travel-risk warnings.

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EO 14077

Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate Disputes Between Certain Railroads Represented by the National Carriers' Conference Committee of the National Railway Labor Conference and Their Employees Represented by Certain Labor Organizations

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Created Presidential Emergency Board 250 to investigate a nationwide freight-rail labor dispute and recommend settlement terms during a statutory cooling-off period.

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EO 14076

Protecting Access to Reproductive Healthcare Services

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Responded to Dobbs by directing HHS and other agencies to protect lawful reproductive care, contraception, emergency care, privacy, safety and accurate information within federal authority.

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EO 14075

Advancing Equality for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Individuals

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Directed agencies to strengthen protections and services for LGBTQI+ people, address conversion practices, homelessness, health disparities and discrimination, and improve data and international engagement.

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EO 14074

Advancing Effective, Accountable Policing and Criminal Justice Practices To Enhance Public Trust and Public Safety

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Set federal law-enforcement standards on use of force, chokeholds, body cameras, warrants, misconduct records, accreditation, transfers of military equipment and death-in-custody data, while encouraging state and local adoption.

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EO 14073

Enhancing the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Placed the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee within the executive branch, revised its membership and directed advice on quantum information science and technology.

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EO 14072

Strengthening the Nation's Forests, Communities, and Local Economies

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Directed agencies to inventory mature and old-growth forests, develop climate-smart stewardship, reduce wildfire risk, support forest economies and combat global deforestation.

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EO 14071

Prohibiting New Investment in and Certain Services to the Russian Federation in Response to Continued Russian Federation Aggression

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Prohibited new US investment in Russia and authorized Treasury to bar categories of services supplied from the United States to persons in Russia.

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EO 14070

Continuing To Strengthen Americans' Access to Affordable, Quality Health Coverage

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Directed agencies to expand affordable coverage, improve enrollment, review benefit adequacy and address medical debt and barriers to care.

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EO 14069

Advancing Economy, Efficiency, and Effectiveness in Federal Contracting by Promoting Pay Equity and Transparency

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Directed the FAR Council to consider barring federal contractors from seeking applicants' salary history and requiring compensation disclosure in covered job advertisements.

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EO 14068

Prohibiting Certain Imports, Exports, and New Investment With Respect to Continued Russian Federation Aggression

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Banned imports of specified Russian seafood, alcohol and diamonds; barred exports of luxury goods; and authorized Treasury to prohibit additional investment sectors.

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EO 14067

Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Ordered a government-wide assessment of digital assets covering consumer protection, financial stability, illicit finance, US competitiveness, payment systems and a potential central-bank digital currency.

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EO 14066

Prohibiting Certain Imports and New Investments With Respect to Continued Russian Federation Efforts To Undermine the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Banned imports of Russian-origin crude oil, petroleum, liquefied natural gas and coal into the United States and prohibited new US investment in Russia's energy sector.

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EO 14065

Blocking Property of Certain Persons and Prohibiting Certain Transactions With Respect to Continued Russian Efforts To Undermine the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Expanded the Ukraine/Russia sanctions framework to cover persons operating in or supporting the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk regions and prohibited new investment, trade and financing involving those areas.

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EO 14064

Protecting Certain Property of Da Afghanistan Bank for the Benefit of the People of Afghanistan

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Blocked specified Da Afghanistan Bank assets held in the United States and directed preservation of part for the benefit of the Afghan people while terrorism victims pursued judgments.

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EO 14063

Use of Project Labor Agreements for Federal Construction Projects

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Required agencies, with stated exceptions, to use project labor agreements on direct federal construction projects estimated at $35 million or more.

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EO 14062

2022 Amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Amended the Manual for Courts-Martial to implement statutory military-justice changes, revise rules and update punitive articles and procedures.

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EO 14061

Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Implemented the 2022 federal civilian pay adjustment and set statutory pay schedules and allowances for specified executive, judicial, uniformed-service and senior positions.

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EO 14060

Establishing the United States Council on Transnational Organized Crime

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Established an interagency council to coordinate intelligence, law enforcement, sanctions and diplomacy against transnational organized crime and directed a supporting strategic-intelligence center.

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EO 14059

Imposing Sanctions on Foreign Persons Involved in the Global Illicit Drug Trade

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Created a sanctions program allowing Treasury and State to block property and restrict entry of foreign persons materially involved in the international illicit drug trade.

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EO 14058

Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service Delivery To Rebuild Trust in Government

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Directed agencies to make high-impact public services simpler, more accessible and more coordinated across life events such as retirement, disaster recovery, health and benefits.

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EO 14057

Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Set government-wide goals for carbon-free electricity, zero-emission vehicle purchases, lower building emissions, sustainable acquisition and net-zero federal operations.

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EO 14056

The National Space Council

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Continued the cabinet-level National Space Council, revised its membership and charged it with coordinating civil, commercial, national-security and international space policy.

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EO 14055

Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers Under Service Contracts

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Required successor federal service contractors to offer covered jobs to qualified employees of the predecessor contractor before recruiting elsewhere.

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EO 14054

Termination of Emergency With Respect to the Situation in Burundi

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Terminated the Burundi national emergency declared in EO 13712, revoked that order and directed release of property blocked solely under it.

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EO 14053

Improving Public Safety and Criminal Justice for Native Americans and Addressing the Crisis of Missing or Murdered Indigenous People

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Directed Justice, Interior, HHS and Homeland Security to improve Tribal public safety, missing-or-murdered Indigenous person responses, data sharing, prevention, victim services and grant access.

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EO 14052

Implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Created an implementation task force and priorities for coordinating grants, procurement, labor standards, domestic content and equitable delivery under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

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EO 14051

Designation To Exercise Authority Over the National Defense Stockpile

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Designated the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment to authorize National Defense Stockpile releases for national-defense purposes, after interagency consultation.

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EO 14050

White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Created an Education Department initiative and presidential advisory commission focused on educational equity and economic opportunity for Black students and communities.

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EO 14049

White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Native Americans and Strengthening Tribal Colleges and Universities

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Created an Education Department initiative and interagency working group for Native students, Tribal Colleges and Universities, language preservation and Tribal educational sovereignty.

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EO 14048

Continuance or Reestablishment of Certain Federal Advisory Committees and Amendments to Other Executive Orders

Joseph R. Biden Jr. · 2021–2025

Continued or re-established specified presidential advisory committees through September 30, 2023 and amended several earlier orders governing advisory bodies.

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