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Executive Order 14018: Revocation of Certain Presidential Actions

President: Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Revoked seven presidential actions on financial regulation, welfare policy, federal labor relations, regulatory relief, city funding, civic architecture and rulemaking.

Status: Revoked.

Is Executive Order 14018 still in effect? No. EO 14148, section 2(z), expressly revoked EO 14018 on January 20, 2025. The later order directs review of implementing actions rather than stating that every instrument previously revoked by EO 14018 automatically returns to force. Each later rule or presidential action must be checked separately. EO 14148, January 20, 2025.

EO 14018 revoked five executive orders and two memoranda, required lawful implementation review, and was itself revoked in 2025 without a blanket restoration of earlier measures
Original source-based diagram: EO 14018’s rescission list, lawful implementation steps and later revocation. Sources: EO 14018, sections 1–3; EO 14148, sections 2(z) and 3(b).

What does Executive Order 14018 do?

EO 14018 rescinded a list of seven presidential actions: five executive orders and two memoranda. Its reach covered financial-regulation policy, welfare and economic-mobility policy, federal labor-management delegations, pandemic regulatory relief, federal funding reviews concerning certain cities, civic architecture and responsibility for agency rulemaking. It was not the February 24, 2021 instrument that revoked an immigrant-entry proclamation. Signed section 1.

The executive orders were EO 13772, EO 13828, EO 13924, EO 13967 and EO 13979. The other two instruments were the January 29, 2020 federal labor-relations delegation memorandum and the September 2, 2020 memorandum on reviewing funding to certain state and local recipients. Listing both kinds of instrument matters: a memorandum is not another numbered executive order. Complete revocation list.

Proclamation 10149, signed the same day, separately revoked Proclamation 10014 and section 1 of Proclamations 10052 and 10131. That proclamation assigned guidance review to State, Labor and Homeland Security. Those immigration directions should not be attributed to EO 14018. Separate signed proclamation.

Later primary evidence reviewed September 24, 2026: EO 14148 expressly revoked this order. 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.
SignedFebruary 24, 2021
Lead officialsOMB and executive department and agency heads
Express timingRevocation and prompt implementation review

Before and after

Before the order

The seven listed actions supplied presidential policy instructions in their different fields. An existing agency regulation or statutory responsibility was a separate legal instrument from the presidential direction behind it. Actions identified in section 1.

After the order

Section 1 withdrew the listed presidential actions. Section 2 directed OMB and agency heads to consider appropriate lawful changes to implementing measures and required abolition of entities created under those actions where appropriate and lawful. It did not itself repeal every implementing regulation. The Administrative Procedure Act and other applicable law still controlled the steps agencies could take. Implementation and legal limits.

EO 14148 revoked EO 14018 in 2025 and separately required review of actions taken under the revoked orders. Its text does not provide a blanket restoration of every earlier instrument. A current agency policy therefore needs its own later source, not an assumption that revoking a rescission rewinds all subsequent decisions. EO 14148, sections 2(z) and 3(b).

Who had to do what

Agency / officialDirectionTiming
OMB DirectorPromptly consider appropriate lawful rescission of implementing orders, rules, guidance or policies.Promptly; no numerical deadline in section 2.
Executive department and agency headsConduct the same implementation review; abolish positions, committees, task forces or other entities established under the revoked actions, where appropriate and lawful.Prompt review; no separate numerical abolition deadline in section 2.

Signed section 2. This order assigned government-wide implementation review, not a new State or Homeland Security visa-processing duty. No numerical reporting schedule or completion date was specified.

What happened next

Biden signed EO 14018, revoking the seven listed actions and directing lawful implementation review. Signed order.

EO 14018 was published at 86 FR 11855. Proclamation 10149 appeared separately at 86 FR 11847; the two instruments should not be conflated. Separate proclamation publication.

EO 14148 section 2(z) expressly revoked EO 14018. Section 3(b) directed review of implementing actions, not automatic restoration of every earlier policy. Later signed order.