Joe Biden's executive orders in 2021

This year has 77 guides in the Joe Biden collection. Open a guide for its sources and current-position review.

2021

EO 13985 · 2021-01-20 · Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal GovernmentStatus under reviewDirected agencies to assess barriers facing underserved communities, produce equity plans and improve data, engagement and allocation of federal resources.

EO 13986 · 2021-01-20 · Ensuring a Lawful and Accurate Enumeration and Apportionment Pursuant to the Decennial CensusStatus under reviewRequired apportionment to use the total resident population determined by the census without excluding people based on immigration status.

EO 13987 · 2021-01-20 · 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 SecurityStatus under reviewCreated White House COVID-19 response leadership and directed a government-wide pandemic strategy, public briefings, equity work and international coordination.

EO 13988 · 2021-01-20 · Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual OrientationStatus under reviewDirected agencies to apply the Supreme Court’s Bostock reasoning when enforcing federal laws prohibiting sex discrimination.

EO 13989 · 2021-01-20 · Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch PersonnelStatus under reviewRequired Biden administration appointees to sign an ethics pledge covering gifts, lobbying, revolving-door restrictions and hiring practices.

EO 13990 · 2021-01-20 · Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate CrisisStatus under reviewDirected agencies to review Trump-era environmental actions, restored climate analytical policy, revoked the Keystone XL permit and reinstated Arctic and monument-related protections.

EO 13991 · 2021-01-20 · Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-WearingStatus under reviewRequired masks, distancing and other CDC-aligned measures in federal buildings and on federal lands and created the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force.

EO 13992 · 2021-01-20 · Revocation of Certain Executive Orders Concerning Federal RegulationRevokedRevoked January 20, 2025 by EO 14148 and EO 14154; earlier agency guidance-rule rescissions required separate actions under applicable law.

EO 13993 · 2021-01-20 · Revision of Civil Immigration Enforcement Policies and PrioritiesStatus under reviewRevoked EO 13768 and directed review of civil immigration enforcement policies toward Biden administration priorities and values.

EO 13994 · 2021-01-21 · Ensuring a Data-Driven Response to COVID-19 and Future High-Consequence Public Health ThreatsStatus under reviewDirected federal coordination of COVID-19 data collection, public dashboards, data standards and equity-focused reporting.

EO 13995 · 2021-01-21 · Ensuring an Equitable Pandemic Response and RecoveryStatus under reviewCreated 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 13996 · 2021-01-21 · Establishing the COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board and Ensuring a Sustainable Public Health Workforce for COVID-19 and Other Biological ThreatsStatus under reviewEstablished 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 13997 · 2021-01-21 · Improving and Expanding Access to Care and Treatments for COVID-19Status under reviewDirected 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 13998 · 2021-01-21 · Promoting COVID-19 Safety in Domestic and International TravelStatus under reviewDirected agencies to require masks across federally regulated transport and assess testing, quarantine and public-health measures for international travellers.

EO 13999 · 2021-01-21 · Protecting Worker Health and SafetyStatus under reviewDirected OSHA and mine-safety officials to issue updated worker-protection guidance, consider emergency standards, focus enforcement and coordinate with state plans.

EO 14000 · 2021-01-21 · Supporting the Reopening and Continuing Operation of Schools and Early Childhood Education ProvidersStatus under reviewDirected Education and HHS to provide evidence-based reopening guidance, collect school-operating data, address unequal educational effects and coordinate testing and support for schools and child-care providers.

EO 14001 · 2021-01-21 · A Sustainable Public Health Supply ChainStatus under reviewRequired an immediate inventory and needs assessment for pandemic supplies, use of available procurement authorities, and a 180-day strategy for a resilient long-term public-health supply chain.

EO 14002 · 2021-01-22 · Economic Relief Related to the COVID-19 PandemicStatus under reviewDirected agencies to identify immediate relief for households, improve benefit delivery, address food insecurity, and protect workers who declined unsafe work while Congress considered additional legislation.

EO 14003 · 2021-01-22 · Protecting the Federal WorkforceStatus under reviewRevoked four Trump workforce orders, stopped Schedule F conversions, restored collective-bargaining practices and directed agencies to review disciplinary, union-time and bargaining policies.

EO 14004 · 2021-01-25 · Enabling All Qualified Americans To Serve Their Country in UniformStatus under reviewRevoked the prior transgender-service restrictions and directed Defense and Homeland Security to permit otherwise qualified transgender people to serve openly under generally applicable standards.

EO 14005 · 2021-01-25 · Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of America's WorkersStatus under reviewCentralized Made in America waiver review, tightened domestic-preference policy and ordered consideration of higher domestic-content and price-preference standards.

EO 14006 · 2021-01-26 · Reforming Our Incarceration System To Eliminate the Use of Privately Operated Criminal Detention FacilitiesStatus under reviewDirected the Attorney General not to renew Justice Department contracts with privately operated criminal detention facilities.

EO 14007 · 2021-01-27 · President's Council of Advisors on Science and TechnologyStatus under reviewRe-established PCAST with up to 26 members to advise the President on science, technology, innovation and related national policy.

EO 14008 · 2021-01-27 · Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and AbroadStatus under reviewMade climate policy a government-wide priority, created White House coordinating bodies, directed conservation and environmental-justice initiatives, and paused new oil and gas leasing pending review.

EO 14009 · 2021-01-28 · Strengthening Medicaid and the Affordable Care ActStatus under reviewDirected agencies to review policies that restricted ACA or Medicaid access and opened a pandemic Marketplace special-enrollment period.

EO 14010 · 2021-02-02 · Creating a Comprehensive Regional Framework To Address the Causes of Migration, To Manage Migration Throughout North and Central America, and To Provide Safe and Orderly Processing of Asylum Seekers at the United States BorderStatus under reviewDirected regional strategies addressing migration causes and management, expanded lawful pathways, and ordered review of asylum and border-processing policies.

EO 14011 · 2021-02-02 · Establishment of Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of FamiliesRevokedCreated a DHS-led interagency task force to identify and facilitate reunification of families separated under the prior zero-tolerance border policy.

EO 14012 · 2021-02-02 · Restoring Faith in Our Legal Immigration Systems and Strengthening Integration and Inclusion Efforts for New AmericansRevokedDirected review of barriers in legal immigration and naturalization, created an interagency integration effort and revoked the prior order excluding immigrants from apportionment.

EO 14013 · 2021-02-04 · Rebuilding and Enhancing Programs To Resettle Refugees and Planning for the Impact of Climate Change on MigrationRevokedOrdered refugee-processing, SIV and sponsorship reviews and a climate-migration report; expressly revoked by EOs 14148, 14154 and 14163 on January 20, 2025.

EO 14014 · 2021-02-10 · Blocking Property With Respect to the Situation in BurmaIn effectDeclared a Burma emergency and authorized targeted property blocking and entry restrictions; Treasury, State and DHS administer separate financial and entry measures.

EO 14015 · 2021-02-14 · Establishment of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood PartnershipsRevokedEstablished a White House office for faith-based and secular community partnerships, assigned agency support, amended earlier office names and revoked EO 13831.

EO 14016 · 2021-02-17 · Revocation of Executive Order 13801Status under reviewRevoked EO 13801, ending its industry-recognized apprenticeship task-force framework while leaving registered apprenticeships and statutory authority intact.

EO 14017 · 2021-02-24 · America's Supply ChainsStatus under reviewOrdered 100-day reviews of four critical supply chains and one-year reports across six industrial sectors, followed by resilience and domestic-capacity actions.

EO 14018 · 2021-02-24 · Revocation of Certain Presidential ActionsRevokedRevoked seven presidential actions on financial regulation, welfare policy, federal labor relations, regulatory relief, city funding, civic architecture and rulemaking.

EO 14019 · 2021-03-07 · Promoting Access to VotingStatus under reviewDirected federal agencies to assess ways to facilitate voter registration and election information, improve access for people with disabilities, service members, overseas voters and people in federal custody.

EO 14020 · 2021-03-08 · Establishment of the White House Gender Policy CouncilStatus under reviewCreated a White House council to coordinate government-wide policy on gender equity and equality, including health, economic security, violence prevention and foreign policy.

EO 14021 · 2021-03-08 · Guaranteeing an Educational Environment Free From Discrimination on the Basis of Sex, Including Sexual Orientation or Gender IdentityStatus under reviewDirected Education to review Title IX regulations and enforcement so students would be protected from sex discrimination, including discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

EO 14022 · 2021-04-01 · Termination of Emergency With Respect to the International Criminal CourtStatus under reviewTerminated the national emergency declared in EO 13928, revoked that order and ended its sanctions framework targeting certain International Criminal Court personnel.

EO 14023 · 2021-04-09 · Establishment of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United StatesStatus under reviewCreated a bipartisan expert commission to study debate over Supreme Court reform, including membership, term length, case selection and Court expansion.

EO 14024 · 2021-04-15 · Blocking Property With Respect to Specified Harmful Foreign Activities of the Government of the Russian FederationStatus under reviewDeclared a national emergency and authorized blocking and other sanctions for specified harmful Russian government activity, including cyber operations, election interference, corruption and territorial aggression.

EO 14025 · 2021-04-26 · Worker Organizing and EmpowermentStatus under reviewCreated a Vice President-led task force to identify lawful federal actions supporting worker organizing and collective bargaining.

EO 14026 · 2021-04-27 · Increasing the Minimum Wage for Federal ContractorsStatus under reviewRequired covered new, renewed or extended federal contracts to pay a $15 hourly minimum from January 2022, indexed annually, and phased out a lower tipped-cash wage.

EO 14027 · 2021-05-07 · Establishment of the Climate Change Support OfficeStatus under reviewCreated a temporary office within the State Department to provide administrative support for the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate.

EO 14028 · 2021-05-12 · Improving the Nation's CybersecurityStatus under reviewRequired stronger federal cloud and zero-trust security, incident information sharing, secure-software practices, endpoint detection, logging and a Cyber Safety Review Board.

EO 14029 · 2021-05-14 · Revocation of Certain Presidential Actions and Technical AmendmentRevokedRevoked six orders on online censorship, monuments, foreign-assistance branding and regulatory criminal enforcement, and amended Civil Service Rule VI after Schedule F was removed.

EO 14030 · 2021-05-20 · Climate-Related Financial RiskStatus under reviewDirected government-wide assessment and disclosure of climate-related financial risk, including risks to financial stability, pensions, federal lending, procurement and the budget.

EO 14031 · 2021-05-28 · Advancing Equity, Justice, and Opportunity for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific IslandersStatus under reviewCreated a White House initiative and advisory commission focused on equity, access, data and anti-Asian bias for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities.

EO 14032 · 2021-06-03 · Addressing the Threat From Securities Investments That Finance Certain Companies of the People's Republic of ChinaStatus under reviewReplaced and clarified EO 13959’s investment prohibitions, focusing restrictions on publicly traded securities of Treasury-listed Chinese military-industrial complex companies.

EO 14033 · 2021-06-08 · Blocking Property and Suspending Entry Into the United States of Certain Persons Contributing to the Destabilizing Situation in the Western BalkansStatus under reviewExpanded an existing Western Balkans national emergency, authorizing asset blocking and entry restrictions for destabilization, corruption and obstruction of regional peace agreements.

EO 14034 · 2021-06-09 · Protecting Americans' Sensitive Data From Foreign AdversariesStatus under reviewRevoked proposed app-specific bans and directed a criteria-based review of connected software applications controlled by foreign adversaries, centered on sensitive-data and national-security risk.

EO 14035 · 2021-06-25 · Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Federal WorkforceStatus under reviewDirected a government-wide strategy and agency plans for diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility in federal employment, including data, recruitment, pay equity and workplace access.

EO 14036 · 2021-07-09 · Promoting Competition in the American EconomyStatus under reviewCreated a White House Competition Council and directed or encouraged more than 70 agency actions across antitrust, labor, transport, agriculture, health, technology and consumer markets.

EO 14037 · 2021-08-05 · Strengthening American Leadership in Clean Cars and TrucksStatus under reviewSet a nonbinding goal that half of new light-duty vehicle sales be electric by 2030 and directed EPA and Transportation to develop stronger emissions and fuel-economy standards.

EO 14038 · 2021-08-09 · Blocking Property of Additional Persons Contributing to the Situation in BelarusStatus under reviewExpanded the Belarus national emergency and authorized blocking sanctions against officials, entities and sectors tied to repression, corruption, election abuses and other harmful conduct.

EO 14039 · 2021-08-20 · Blocking Property With Respect to Certain Russian Energy Export PipelinesStatus under reviewAuthorized blocking sanctions against persons involved in specified Russian energy export pipeline activities identified under PEESA and related authorities.

EO 14040 · 2021-09-03 · Declassification Reviews of Certain Documents Concerning the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001Status under reviewOrdered the Attorney General and agencies to review specified 9/11 investigation records for declassification and public release on a staged six-month timetable.

EO 14041 · 2021-09-03 · White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity Through Historically Black Colleges and UniversitiesStatus under reviewCreated an Education Department initiative, interagency working group and presidential advisory board to support historically Black colleges and universities.

EO 14042 · 2021-09-09 · Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal ContractorsStatus under reviewRequired covered federal contracts to include workplace COVID-19 safety clauses based on Safer Federal Workforce Task Force guidance, including vaccination requirements.

EO 14043 · 2021-09-09 · Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal EmployeesStatus under reviewDirected agencies to require COVID-19 vaccination for federal employees, subject to exceptions required by law.

EO 14044 · 2021-09-13 · Amending Executive Order 14007Status under reviewExpanded PCAST’s authorized membership from 26 to 32 and made a conforming quorum-related change.

EO 14045 · 2021-09-13 · White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for HispanicsStatus under reviewCreated an Education Department initiative and advisory commission focused on educational equity and economic opportunity for Hispanic and Latino students and communities.

EO 14046 · 2021-09-17 · Imposing Sanctions on Certain Persons With Respect to the Humanitarian and Human Rights Crisis in EthiopiaStatus under reviewDeclared a national emergency and authorized blocking, entry and menu-based sanctions against persons contributing to conflict, abuses or obstruction of aid and peace in northern Ethiopia.

EO 14047 · 2021-09-17 · Adding Measles to the List of Quarantinable Communicable DiseasesIn effectIn effect: adds measles to the federal quarantinable-disease list, not an automatic individual quarantine or new vaccination program.

EO 14048 · 2021-09-30 · Continuance or Reestablishment of Certain Federal Advisory Committees and Amendments to Other Executive OrdersStatus under reviewContinued or re-established specified presidential advisory committees through September 30, 2023 and amended several earlier orders governing advisory bodies.

EO 14049 · 2021-10-11 · White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Native Americans and Strengthening Tribal Colleges and UniversitiesStatus under reviewCreated an Education Department initiative and interagency working group for Native students, Tribal Colleges and Universities, language preservation and Tribal educational sovereignty.

EO 14050 · 2021-10-19 · White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black AmericansStatus under reviewCreated an Education Department initiative and presidential advisory commission focused on educational equity and economic opportunity for Black students and communities.

EO 14051 · 2021-10-31 · Designation To Exercise Authority Over the National Defense StockpileIn effectDesignated the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment to authorize National Defense Stockpile releases for national-defense purposes, after interagency consultation.

EO 14052 · 2021-11-15 · Implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs ActStatus under reviewCreated an implementation task force and priorities for coordinating grants, procurement, labor standards, domestic content and equitable delivery under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

EO 14053 · 2021-11-15 · Improving Public Safety and Criminal Justice for Native Americans and Addressing the Crisis of Missing or Murdered Indigenous PeopleStatus under reviewDirected 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.

EO 14054 · 2021-11-18 · Termination of Emergency With Respect to the Situation in BurundiStatus under reviewTerminated the Burundi national emergency declared in EO 13712, revoked that order and directed release of property blocked solely under it.

EO 14055 · 2021-11-18 · Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers Under Service ContractsStatus under reviewRequired successor federal service contractors to offer covered jobs to qualified employees of the predecessor contractor before recruiting elsewhere.

EO 14056 · 2021-12-01 · The National Space CouncilStatus under reviewContinued the cabinet-level National Space Council, revised its membership and charged it with coordinating civil, commercial, national-security and international space policy.

EO 14057 · 2021-12-08 · Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal SustainabilityStatus under reviewSet government-wide goals for carbon-free electricity, zero-emission vehicle purchases, lower building emissions, sustainable acquisition and net-zero federal operations.

EO 14058 · 2021-12-13 · Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service Delivery To Rebuild Trust in GovernmentStatus under reviewDirected agencies to make high-impact public services simpler, more accessible and more coordinated across life events such as retirement, disaster recovery, health and benefits.

EO 14059 · 2021-12-15 · Imposing Sanctions on Foreign Persons Involved in the Global Illicit Drug TradeStatus under reviewCreated a sanctions program allowing Treasury and State to block property and restrict entry of foreign persons materially involved in the international illicit drug trade.

EO 14060 · 2021-12-15 · Establishing the United States Council on Transnational Organized CrimeStatus under reviewEstablished an interagency council to coordinate intelligence, law enforcement, sanctions and diplomacy against transnational organized crime and directed a supporting strategic-intelligence center.

EO 14061 · 2021-12-22 · Adjustments of Certain Rates of PayStatus under reviewImplemented the 2022 federal civilian pay adjustment and set statutory pay schedules and allowances for specified executive, judicial, uniformed-service and senior positions.