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Executive Order 14060: Establishing the United States Council on Transnational Organized Crime

President: Joseph R. Biden Jr.

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

Status: Revoked.

Is Executive Order 14060 still in effect? No. Revoked January 20, 2025; council structure ended.

Officials examine a global map surrounded by shipping, money and enforcement scenes.
Coordination against transnational organized crime, illustrated symbolically; the map is not an intelligence finding or record of a particular investigation. EO Explained · site-generated editorial illustration · not documentary evidence.

What does Executive Order 14060 do?

The Attorney General chaired the council, with participating agencies coordinating operations and intelligence support under their existing powers.

Later primary evidence reviewed September 24, 2026: A later presidential order listed this order among the actions it revoked. Official source. The cited steps do not establish every downstream effect.

Administration position: The order’s findings and policy rationale were the Biden administration’s positions. This guide distinguishes them from implementation records and judicial rulings.
SignedDecember 15, 2021
Lead officialsAttorney General, Homeland Security, Treasury, State, Defense and Intelligence Community
Express timingCouncil review within 120 days; recurring coordination thereafter

Before and after

Before the order

Federal agencies pursued organized crime through separate statutory missions and earlier strategies without this cabinet-level council structure.

After the order

The council coordinated the 2021 Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime and agency actions. EO 14148 revoked the order in January 2025; underlying criminal and sanctions authorities continued.

A later presidential order listed this order among the actions it revoked.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
Council agenciesCoordinate whole-of-government policy and operationsOngoing
Attorney GeneralChair the councilOngoing
Intelligence CommunitySupport strategic intelligence centerAs directed

What happened next

EO 14060 signed.

EO 14148 revoked EO 14060.

Later primary evidence reviewed: A later presidential order listed this order among the actions it revoked.