Defense and national security

Executive Order 14362: Designation of Certain Muslim Brotherhood Chapters as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists

President: Donald J. Trump

EO 14362 remains in effect. See its report and action clocks, branch-specific designations, and why announcement and legal effective dates differ.

Status: In effect. Is Executive Order 14362 still in effect? Yes. The Federal Register disposition entry lists no revocation, and the January 2026 agency actions expressly connect their designation work to this order. The review instruction is distinct from the separate designation notices and their legal effective dates; it does not designate every Muslim Brotherhood chapter. Current disposition entry; Treasury’s implementation announcement.

EO 14362 separates a 30-day report from a later 45-day action clock and distinguishes named-branch designations from announcement and FTO effective dates
Original source-based diagram: review, specific designations and separate effective dates. Sources: signed order; Treasury implementation; Lebanese FTO notice; Sudanese FTO notice.

What does Executive Order 14362 do?

The order directs executive officials within existing statutory authority; its practical effect therefore depends on the later agency, regulatory, diplomatic or presidential actions identified below.

Administration position: The order’s policy rationale and threat findings are administration assessments. This guide attributes those claims and treats later official acts, not the order’s description alone, as evidence of implementation.

Reading the operative provisions of Executive Order 14362

EO 14362 directs the Secretary of State and Treasury to evaluate specified Muslim Brotherhood chapters for designation under existing counterterrorism and sanctions authorities. The Federal Register text establishes a review process; a designation has to be made through the applicable statutory procedure and agency action. The order does not designate every organization using the Muslim Brotherhood name or every individual associated with one.

Foreign Terrorist Organization designation under the Immigration and Nationality Act and Treasury’s Specially Designated Global Terrorist designation are separate legal tools. Each has its own criteria and consequences. A State Department designation can trigger material-support prohibitions and immigration consequences, while an OFAC designation can block property and restrict transactions under sanctions law. The agency notice and current list determine which entity is covered.

Organizations may challenge a designation through the review process allowed by law, and sanctions licenses or exceptions can affect particular transactions. People and institutions should not infer that every humanitarian, academic or religious contact is prohibited without checking the exact designation and applicable rules. The order sets executive priorities; State and Treasury actions determine the legal status of a specific chapter or person.

The signed text sets up a sequence rather than immediately changing every chapter’s legal classification. State and Treasury first prepare a joint report after consulting the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence. Their next step must follow the applicable designation law. The President’s National Security Affairs assistant is the route for delivering the report, not an additional independent designating authority. Sections 1 and 3.

The January 13, 2026 implementation announcement made a concrete distinction: Treasury designated the Egyptian and Jordanian branches as Specially Designated Global Terrorists under EO 13224, as amended; State announced both FTO and SDGT actions for the Lebanese branch. Treasury’s stated grounds were its findings about support for Hamas, not a judicial conviction of every member or a designation of an entire religion. Agency actions and stated grounds; Named SDN entries.

An announcement date is not necessarily the statutory effective date. State’s Lebanese FTO determination was dated December 19, 2025, but expressly became effective upon publication in the Federal Register on January 14, 2026. Likewise, OFAC’s March 9 Sudanese list update should not be mistaken for the Sudanese FTO notice’s March 16 effective date. That later determination was dated March 8 and also used publication as its trigger. Lebanese FTO notice; March list update; Sudanese FTO notice.

For a reader checking a transaction, the relevant questions are the exact named entity and aliases, the particular designation program, and any applicable exception or OFAC license. Treasury explains that its blocking rules cover specified property under U.S. jurisdiction and certain entities owned at least 50 percent by blocked persons; authorized or exempt transactions are treated separately. The executive order’s general policy statement is not a substitute for that entity-specific analysis. Official sanctions implications.

SignedNovember 24, 2025
Lead officialsState and Treasury
Express timingReport within 30 days; action within 45 days after submission

Before and after

Before the order

Existing statutes, regulations, programs and presidential actions supplied the prior legal baseline.

The order could direct executive discretion but could not amend an Act of Congress.

After the order

The Egyptian, Jordanian and Lebanese chapters were designated in January 2026; a Sudanese designation followed in March.

Later measures have their own authority, effective date and review path.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
Secretary of StateJointly report with Treasury after consulting the Attorney General and DNI; take appropriate FTO or sanctions designation action within the applicable authority. State also bears publication costs.Report within 30 days of November 24, 2025: December 24, 2025. Action within 45 days after the report is submitted; sections 3(a)–(b). No separate publication-cost clock; section 4(d).
Secretary of the TreasuryJointly report with State; take appropriate designation action under the applicable sanctions authority.Same report deadline and submission-triggered 45-day action period; not 45 days from signing.
Attorney GeneralBe consulted by State and Treasury on the joint report.During report preparation; section 3(a). No independent report or designation deadline.
Director of National IntelligenceBe consulted by State and Treasury on the joint report.During report preparation; section 3(a). No independent designation authority is created by this instruction.
Assistant to the President for National Security AffairsReceive the joint report as the route to the President.On submission under section 3(a); the order does not assign this official a separate designation decision.

The 30-day date is calendar arithmetic from the signed order. The later 45-day clock depends on actual report submission, which the records reviewed here do not establish. A public designation announcement does not prove when the internal report was delivered. General OMB savings language preserves existing functions; it is not a new substantive assignment. Signed sections 3–4.

What happened next

EO 14362 signed.

Treasury announced Egyptian and Jordanian SDGT designations and State’s Lebanese FTO/SDGT actions. The Lebanese FTO notice had a separate publication-triggered effective date. Official announcement; SDN update.

The Lebanese FTO designation became effective upon Federal Register publication; the signed determination itself was dated December 19, 2025. State’s published determination.

OFAC posted the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood list update. The FTO designation’s March 16 effective date is established by the separate State notice, not this posting date. Official list update.

The Sudanese FTO designation became effective upon publication; the determination was dated March 8. State’s published determination.

Current position checked against the official implementation record.