Trump Executive Order Tracker

Establishes the President’s Make America Beautiful Again Commission to coordinate federal conservation efforts and expand outdoor recreation access. The Commission is directed to promote natural resource stewardship, reduce bureaucratic barriers, and support voluntary conservation, while advising the President on restoring public lands, recovering wildlife, and improving water access and quality. It will be chaired by the Secretary of the Interior, with the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy serving as Executive Director. Members will include the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), and other Administration officials as designated by the Chair and Executive Director.

Directs the Department of the Interior (DOI), in coordination with the Department of Agriculture (USDA), to raise entrance and pass fees for foreign visitors to national parks while improving affordability and access for U.S. residents. It also mandates action to enhance park infrastructure, address maintenance backlogs, and review existing recreation policies to expand domestic usage and promote underutilized sites. The order also revokes the Presidential Memorandum of January 12, 2017, titled Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in Our National Parks, National Forests, and Other Public Lands and Waters.

Directs the Attorney General to identify and act against state and local laws that burden domestic energy production and may be unconstitutional, preempted by federal law, or otherwise unlawful, particularly those tied to climate change, ESG policies, and carbon penalties.

The Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), assisted by the Attorney General and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), shall coordinate the termination of all discriminatory programs, including DEI and “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility” (DEIA) mandates, policies, programs, preferences, and activities in the federal government, under whatever name they appear (including in relation to “environmental justice”).

The heads of agencies shall take all appropriate action to eliminate the procurement of paper straws and otherwise ensure that paper straws are no longer provided within agency buildings. Within 45 days of the date of this order, the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, in coordination with relevant agencies, shall issue a National Strategy to End the Use of Paper Straws to phase out their use nationwide. 

Directs the heads of executive departments and agencies to review all funding provided to NGOs and align future funding decisions with the interests of the United States and the goals of the Trump-Vance administration. 

Orders that for each new regulation issued, at least 10 prior regulations be identified for elimination.  This practice is to ensure that the cost of planned regulations is responsibly managed and controlled through a rigorous regulatory budgeting process.

Rescinded: The White House Office of Management and Budget has rescinded its freeze on federal financial assistance, per a January 29 memo circulated to all federal departments and agencies. As a result, the original pause on agency funds, which itself had been subject to a federal district court stay until February 3, will not go forward.

This EO invokes authorities under the National Emergencies Act (NEA) to declare an energy emergency. Orders executive departments and agencies to identify and exercise any lawful emergency authorities available to them to facilitate the identification, leasing, siting, production, transportation, refining, and generation of domestic energy resources, including, but not limited to, on federal lands.