Executive Order 14148: Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions

What does Executive Order 14148 do?

The order revoked 78 executive orders, memoranda and other presidential actions issued during the Biden administration. Agency heads were told to take immediate implementation steps. The Domestic Policy Council and National Economic Council were also given 45 days to identify further presidential actions for possible rescission or replacement, while the National Security Advisor received a parallel 45-day review of national-security memoranda. Revocation ended the listed presidential directions, but regulations, contracts and other downstream measures sometimes required separate agency action.

Reading the operative provisions of Executive Order 14148

The order is a schedule of rescissions, not a general repeal of every Biden-era policy. Section 2 names each executive order or presidential action being revoked; departments then had to take steps to carry out the listed changes within their own authority. Section 3 adds a review function for the Domestic Policy Council and National Economic Council, with a 45-day deadline to identify federal actions based on the revoked policies and recommend whether to rescind, replace, or modify them. National-security and other policy areas received separate review assignments.

That process helps explain why the legal effect of the 78 revocations differs from the later agency work. A revoked executive order may have been implemented through rules, guidance, grants, or agency decisions that require their own amendment. EO 14148 directs review of those instruments; it does not silently erase each one on the signing date. EO 14236 later revoked additional actions after the review. For any concrete program, the agency notice and current rule are the evidence of what changed. Read Executive Order 14148 in the Federal Register.