Barack Obama's executive orders in 2017

The last orders of the Obama administration

The related guides include Executive Order 13761, Executive Order 13762, Executive Order 13764. These are individual orders with separate legal effects, implementation histories, and current status.

The seven orders in this collection were issued from January 12 through January 17, 2017. They address a mix of personnel and administrative matters, including Purple Heart eligibility, federal labor-management rules, Justice Department and EPA succession, international sanctions involving Sudan, and executive-branch security-clearance governance. This short final-week list shows why year indexes can combine unrelated subjects even when their signing dates are close together.

Later treatment is especially important for a transition-year page. A successor may keep an order in force, amend it, revoke it, or replace a particular mechanism. The guide for each order identifies any later action found in the cited record. Readers should use those individual status notes instead of inferring that all orders from a departing administration ended automatically when the next president took office. Administrative succession and policy reversal are different legal events: an office may continue under a new president while a particular direction is amended, and a successor may preserve a measure while changing how an agency carries it out.