Executive Orders and Presidential Memoranda Issued by the Trump Administration (Post #5)

Since our last post on March 1, President Trump has issued 15 more Executive Orders and Presidential Memoranda. See the list below for details of each action.

We do not include Presidential Proclamations in our list, which are technically executive actions; however, President Trump’s proclamations so far have been strictly ceremonious and not policy driven, as are most proclamations.  A full list of proclamations can be found on the proclamations page of the White House website.  

In total, President Trump has issued 61 executive actions since taking office on January 20, 2017.

4/3

• Presidential Memorandum for the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service
  • Establishes Principles for Reforming the Military Selective Service Process, in accordance with section 555 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328), which calls for the President to establish principles for reform of the military selective service process in support of the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service.

3/31

• Presidential Executive Order on Establishing Enhanced Collection and Enforcement of Antidumping and Countervailing Duties and Violations of Trade and Customs Laws
  • Establishes policy to impose appropriate bonding requirements, based on risk assessments, on entries of articles subject to antidumping and countervailing duties, when necessary to protect the revenue of the United States.

• Presidential Executive Order on Providing an Order of Succession Within the Department of Justice
  • Provides an order of succession within the Department of Justice.

• Presidential Executive Order Regarding the Omnibus Report on Significant Trade Deficits
  • Directs the Secretary of Commerce and the United States Trade Representative, in consultation with several other federal agencies, to prepare and submit to the President an Omnibus Report on Significant Trade Deficits. The report will assess the major causes of the trade deficits and if our trading partners are directly or indirectly “imposing unequal burdens on, or unfairly discriminating in fact against, the commerce of the United States.”

3/29

• Presidential Executive Order Establishing the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis
  • Establishes a Presidential Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis to study the scope and effectiveness of the Federal response to drug addiction and the opioid crisis and to make recommendations to the President for improving that response.

3/28

• Presidential Executive Order on Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth
  • Directs federal agencies to review all existing regulations and related actions that “potentially burden the development or use of domestically produced energy resources and appropriately suspend, revise, or rescind those that unduly burden the development of domestic energy resources.” The order also rescinds several climate-related Obama-era actions.

3/27

• Presidential Memorandum on The White House Office of American Innovation
  • Establishes the White House Office of American Innovation, which will aim to reform government functions with ideas from the private sector/business.

• Presidential Executive Order on the Revocation of Federal Contracting Executive Orders
  • Rescinds three Obama-era orders that required federal government contracts over $500,000 go to companies that hadn't violated labor laws. When companies bid for federal contracts, they'll no longer have to disclose if they've violated the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act, or the National Labor Relations Act.

3/23

• Notice Regarding the Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to South Sudan
  • Continues the national emergency regarding South Sudan that was declared on April 3, 2014.

• Message to the Congress Regarding the Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to South Sudan
  • Notifies Congress of the Administration’s decision to continue the national emergency regarding South Sudan.

3/20

• Presidential Memorandum on the Delegation of Authority Under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017
  • Assigns presidential power in the National Defense Authorization Act to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

3/16

• Letter from the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives
  • Outlines the Trump Administration’s appropriations request for FY 2017.

3/13

• Presidential Executive Order on a Comprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch
  • Directs Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney to review agency head's proposed plans to reorganize or shrink their departments, and submit a plan to Trump by September 2017 outlining how to streamline the government.

3/6

• Executive Order Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States
  • President Trump’s second attempt at imposing ban on travel of people from Sudan, Iran, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, and Libya from entering the US for 90 days, and bars all refugees from coming into the country for 120 days, starting March 16. This order was also stayed nationwide by a federal judge in Hawaii on March 15.

• Memorandum for the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security
  • Instructs the State Department, the Justice Department, and the Department of Homeland Security how to implement President Trump's second travel ban.