Policies & Analysis

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This memorandum directs certain White House staff to be granted the highest level of security clearance without vetting.

This memo directs the White House Counsel to identify individuals in the Executive Office of the President that must be granted Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) — the highest level of security clearance — without proper vetting or background checks. The security clearances are for up to six months and the memo allows for the White House Counsel to supplement the lists or revoke any of these accesses.

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This order commands all federal remote workers back to the office full-time, without regard to union agreements or disruptions it could cause.

This order directs agencies to terminate remote work arrangements and require remote workers to return to the office full-time. Only department and agency heads can grant exceptions, and there are no standards listed for those exceptions. There is also no acknowledgment of union collective bargaining agreements, which could mean that the administration intends to ignore them. This will create major hardships for remote workers, despite remote work being common outside the government, and it will make it harder for the government to provide essential services and protections.

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This order claims to prohibit the proposal or issuing of any policies until a Trump administration official reviews and approves them.

By giving Trump administration officials complete review authority over issuing and proposing regulatory actions, guidance documents, and rules, this order makes it much more difficult for our government to perform essential functions, which include ensuring our food, medicine, transportation, and water are safe. Additionally, this order proposes to delay the effective dates of certain policies, as well as withdraw others that have not yet been published. Government cannot work for people and communities across this country by grinding it to a halt.

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This order directs agency heads to lower the costs of housing, healthcare, and other necessities, in part by cutting regulations intended to protect consumers and the climate.

This order claims to address Americans' higher costs of living, but it will have no immediate effect. It directs agency heads to "deliver emergency price relief," in part by cutting policies that protect consumers and communities, and to implement some changes that agency heads lack the authority to carry out on their own.

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This order places a freeze on vast swaths of federal hiring, making it harder for the government to provide critical services and protections.

This order institutes an immediate hiring freeze throughout the executive branch, with some exceptions. It also provides for the White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to consult with the DOGE on a plan to reduce the size of the Federal Government’s workforce. The IRS is targeted for a lengthier freeze than the rest of government. This overbroad and arbitrary freeze will make it harder for the government to staff essential positions that benefit all Americans.

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This order seeks to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

This executive order directs the United States to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, in which almost 200 parties voluntarily committed to reduce their carbon emissions. Our withdrawal will seriously jeopardize the ability of the world community to prevent a catastrophic global rise in temperatures. Climate change has already increased the frequency and severity of extreme weather events like hurricanes and wildfires around the world and in the United States, and in the years to come will only continue to prove destabilizing in alarming and unpredictable ways. Climate change is not only an environmental problem; it risks our long-term national security and economic prosperity. Notably, other than the United States, the only three countries who are not parties to the Paris Climate Agreement are Iran, Libya, and Yemen.

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This order claims to end federal government censorship and directs the Attorney General to investigate the Biden administration for its efforts to combat disinformation.

This order does not alter anyone's First Amendment rights. The federal government is already prohibited from unconstitutionally abridging the free speech of any American citizen. This order claims that the Biden administration, in its attempts to combat "misinformation," "disinformation," and "malinformation," unconstitutionally coerced social media companies to censor Americans' speech on online platforms. The order directs the Attorney General to consult with the heads of executive departments and agencies to "investigate the activities of the Federal Government over the last 4 years" for unconstitutional censorship and to prepare a report recommending "appropriate remedial actions" based on the report's findings.