Executive Order 14174: Revocation of Certain Executive Orders
President: Donald J. Trump
Purported to revoke the federal-contractor and federal-employee COVID-19 orders; EO 14099 had already revoked both in May 2023.
Status: In effect.
Is Executive Order 14174 still in effect? Yes. EO 14174’s January 21, 2025 revocation remains in the checked Federal Register record, which does not identify a later revocation of EO 14174 itself. Its targets, EOs 14042 and 14043, had already been revoked effective May 12, 2023 by EO 14099. EO 14148 revoked EO 14099 on January 20, 2025, but did not expressly reinstate those targets; EO 14174 expressly revoked them again the next day. Federal Register disposition entry; EO 14148, section 2(fff); EO 14174, section 1.
What does Executive Order 14174 do?
EO 14174 named EOs 14042 and 14043 for revocation. The earlier EO 14099 had already revoked both orders effective May 12, 2023. The 2025 action therefore confirmed a legal position rather than reviving and newly terminating operative mandates. The Federal Register's current record for EO 14042 lists both revoking orders.
Later evidence reviewed September 27, 2026: Current Federal Register metadata records EO 14174, while the signed EO 14099 establishes the earlier effective revocation.
Reading the operative provisions of Executive Order 14174
EO 14174 identifies Executive Orders 14042 and 14043 for revocation, but EO 14099 had already revoked both in 2023, with that revocation taking effect on May 12, 2023. The 2025 instrument therefore repeated a disposition for orders that were no longer operative. It did not newly end an active federal contractor vaccine mandate or a federal employee vaccine requirement on its signing date.
That chronology is a useful example of why order status must be read across the full disposition record. A title may say “revocation,” but the cited target may already have been revoked by an earlier instrument. The controlling question is which order was effective immediately before the later action, what revocation date the earlier instrument set, and whether another law or agency rule continued to govern the underlying subject.
The 2025 publication confirms the administration’s stated disposition and provides a new official record, but it does not restore either 2021 order between 2023 and 2025. Nor does the duplicate revocation erase independent workplace or public-health laws. For any claim about current requirements, follow the agency rule and the earlier EO 14099 record cited here, not EO 14174’s title alone. Read Executive Order 14174 in the Federal Register.
The earlier revocation illustrates a second distinction: an executive order can change federal policy without repealing the underlying statute or every agency rule that once cited it. Here, the two 2021 orders had already been revoked through EO 14099, so EO 14174 added no new effective date for their mandates. The Federal Register disposition table and the 2023 revoking text establish that sequence. If a workplace or contractor requirement continued after May 2023, its authority would have to come from another statute, regulation, contract clause, or agency policy—not from EO 14042 or EO 14043 remaining in force.
Before and after
Before the order
EO 14099 had already revoked EOs 14042 and 14043 effective May 12, 2023.
After the order
EO 14174 again declared those same orders revoked.
It did not reinstate them before revocation and did not itself address separate OSHA, CMS, military, state or private vaccine requirements.
Who had to do what
The President directly revoked the two named orders; departments apply that disposition within their existing authority. EO 14174 assigns no specific agency task, report or implementation deadline. Its references to agency authority and OMB functions are savings clauses, not new assignments. Sections 1–2 of the signed order.
What happened next
EO 14099 signed.
EO 14099 made its revocation of EOs 14042 and 14043 effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time. Sections 2–3.
EO 14148 section 2(fff) revoked EO 14099; it did not expressly reinstate the two 2021 orders. Rescission list.
EO 14174 signed.
Published in the Federal Register.
Disposition history and the duplicate revocation were rechecked.
The checked Federal Register disposition entry records EO 14174 without a later revoker. This guide distinguishes the order’s own status from the status of the orders it revoked. Disposition record.
Legal and source detail
How it works legally
A second revocation does not create an intervening period of effectiveness. Neither EO 14099 nor EO 14174 automatically resolved litigation, contract terms or requirements arising under different statutory authorities.
EO 14148’s January 20, 2025 list also revoked EO 14099 itself, in section 2(fff), but contains no express restoration of EOs 14042 or 14043. The following day’s EO 14174 independently states that both are revoked. That sequence supports the recorded disposition; it does not support treating EO 14174 as itself revoked or assuming the two 2021 mandates automatically revived. January 20 rescission text; January 21 revocation text.
Sources by type
If a source is unavailable, first check the cited publisher or another official repository. The cited publisher remains the authority.
Primary and official sources
Orders, laws, court records and official implementation material.
How we checked this
Last checked against the sources above on September 27, 2026. How we research →
Additional evidence review: October 16, 2026. Compared the signed 2023 revoker, January 2025 rescission and fresh revocation, and the Federal Register disposition entry. No new implementation assignment or later revocation of EO 14174 was identified in those records.