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Donald Trump's executive orders in 2021

This year has 14 guides in the Donald Trump collection. Open a guide for its sources and current-position review.

2021

EO 13971 · 2021-01-05 · Addressing the Threat Posed by Applications and Other Software Developed or Controlled by Chinese CompaniesFull guide: what happened nexted; later effects may require further reviewProhibited specified transactions with people behind listed Chinese-connected software applications and authorized Commerce to implement the restrictions, subject to law.

EO 13972 · 2021-01-05 · Promoting Small Modular Reactors for National Defense and Space ExplorationFull guide: what happened nexted; later effects may require further reviewDirected Defense to plan small-reactor demonstrations at a military installation and promoted advanced reactors for defense and space missions.

EO 13973 · 2021-01-08 · Providing an Order of Succession Within the Environmental Protection AgencySuccession designation retained in the official U.S. Code note; activation remains vacancy-specificSet an EPA order of succession below the Deputy Administrator and revoked the agency's earlier succession order.

EO 13974 · 2021-01-13 · Amending Executive Order 13959 — Addressing the Threat From Securities Investments That Finance Communist Chinese Military CompaniesFull guide: what happened nexted; later effects may require further reviewAmended EO 13959's securities restrictions, including the divestment period, covered-company definitions and meaning of transaction.

EO 13975 · 2021-01-14 · Encouraging Buy American Policies for the United States Postal ServiceFull guide: what happened nexted; later effects may require further reviewEncouraged the Postal Service to consider stronger domestic-purchase preferences in its own procurement rules after related federal rulemaking.

EO 13976 · 2021-01-14 · Establishing the Wildland Fire Management Policy CommitteeCommittee created; public completion record not located and later statutory commission was a separate bodyCreated an interagency committee to recommend federal wildland-fire policy changes and required a report within 180 days.

EO 13977 · 2021-01-18 · Protecting Law Enforcement Officers, Judges, Prosecutors, and Their FamiliesProtective-policy direction issued; later judicial-security statute enacted without proof of direct causationDirected federal reviews and protective measures concerning threats to law-enforcement officers, judges, prosecutors and their families.

EO 13978 · 2021-01-18 · Building the National Garden of American HeroesFull guide: what happened nexted; later effects may require further reviewAmended the plan for a National Garden of American Heroes, including the selection of a site and figures to be honored.

EO 13979 · January 18, 2021 · Ensuring Democratic Accountability in Agency RulemakingRevokedEO 14018 revoked this senior-appointee rulemaking order on February 24, 2021, before its separate 90-day, 120-day and 180-day review periods elapsed.

EO 13980 · January 18, 2021 · Protecting Americans From Overcriminalization Through Regulatory ReformRevokedRevoked by EO 14029 on May 14, 2021. Its rulemaking/referral guidance had important exceptions; the later EO 14294 created separate inventory and reporting duties.

EO 13981 · 2021-01-18 · Protecting the United States From Certain Unmanned Aircraft SystemsFull guide: what happened nexted; later effects may require further reviewDirected agencies to review procurement and use of drones linked to foreign adversaries and asked FAA to propose restrictions near sensitive sites.

EO 13982 · 2021-01-19 · Care of Veterans With Service in UzbekistanFull guide: what happened nextedDirected VA to consider care eligibility for veterans who served in Uzbekistan and Defense to study exposures at K-2; VA later addressed Uzbekistan exposure in a 2021 rule.

EO 13983 · 2021-01-19 · Revocation of Executive Order 13770OGE updated its ethics-agreement form after revocationRevoked EO 13770’s appointee ethics pledge effective noon January 20, 2021; OGE subsequently removed the old pledge from its compliance form.

EO 13984 · 2021-01-19 · Taking Additional Steps To Address the National Emergency With Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber- Enabled ActivitiesFull guide: what happened nexted; later effects may require further reviewDirected Commerce to propose identity-verification and special-measure rules for foreign users of United States cloud infrastructure services to address malicious cyber activity.