This memo directs federal agencies to immediately close all of their diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility offices and put their employees on paid administrative leave.

The Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued this memo directing agency heads across the federal government to immediately close all agency offices focusing exclusively on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility initiatives, and to place employees of those offices on paid administrative leave while the administration take steps to plan a reduction-in-force. The order directs agencies to ask employees to report changes to contract descriptions or personnel positions that obscure their relationship to "DEI or similar ideologies" and threatens employees with adverse consequences for failure to report. The order also directs agency heads to look back in time and provide OPM with a complete list of all diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility offices, employees, and agency contracts as of November 5, 2024.

This order encourages investigations of campuses where post-October 7th protests occurred.

This order denounces anti-Semitism in the wake of the October 7, 2024 attack. However, rather than suggest forward-looking measures to combat antisemitic discrimination, the order concerns only backward looking investigations of events on university campuses. In particular, it directs the Attorney General to review past complaints around campus protest and "encourages" the AG to bring or intervene in cases as a result.

This order expands the capacity of Guantanamo to house migrants to the U.S.

This order directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to expand capacity at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay to hold migrants to the U.S.. Reports say President Trump wants the capacity to expand to 30,000, but has not explained how the United States will pay for the expansion or the needs of the migrants detained.

This order calls for reform of the Foreign Service such that State Department employees will be recruited, evaluated, and promoted based on their loyalty to President Trump.

The order tells the Secretary of State to reform recruitment, evaluation, and retention standards to ensure that all State Department employees fully carry out President Trump's America First foreign policy agenda. Foreign Service Officers have long implemented presidents' initiatives regardless of their party, but this order politicizes their work by suggesting any officer who shows dissent or contradicts Trump will be fired. The order expands President Trump's Schedule Policy/Career (formerly known as Schedule F) directive by trying to make it easier to fire non-political government workers who are not fully aligned with President Trump's agenda. It reverses the longstanding principle of the Foreign Service that officers are hired and promoted for their merit, expertise, and experience, rather than their political loyalty.

This order suspends enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prevents companies from committing bribery abroad.

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act prohibits U.S. companies from paying bribes to foreign officials to get or maintain business. It is a vital tool in the U.S. fight against corruption abroad, which ultimately benefits democratic principles of transparency and rule of law, as well as U.S. customers and the U.S. national interest. It also projects the U.S. commitment to the rule of law abroad and ensures companies do not play an ever escalating game of incurring bribery costs. This order directs the Attorney General to halt any new investigations and review existing ones for 180 days, which can be extended even further.

This order imposed tariffs on Canadian imports but was later paused.

This executive order further expanded President Trump's declaration of a national emergency at the Southern border (EO 10886) to include the Northern border with Canada. It then imposed 25% tariffs on most Canadian imports in response, creating conditions for an escalating trade war. The EO was paused two days later after Canada made gestures toward addressing the flow of fentanyl to the U.S and threatened to impose retaliatory tariffs.