Revocation of Certain Executive Orders Concerning Federal Regulation
The order immediately revokes six Trump-era executive orders that imposed regulatory cost controls and procedural restrictions on agencies — most notably the 'two-for-one' rule requiring elimination of two regulations for every new one issued.
It also directs OMB and all agency heads to dismantle the rules, guidelines, positions, and task forces built to enforce those orders, freeing agencies to pursue regulatory action on COVID-19, economic recovery, racial justice, and climate change.
What this order does
What it orders
The order revokes six executive orders from the prior administration: EO 13771 (the 'two-for-one' deregulatory cost rule), EO 13777 (Regulatory Reform Agenda), EO 13875 (Federal Advisory Committees), EO 13891 (agency guidance documents), EO 13892 (civil enforcement transparency), and EO 13893 (Administrative PAYGO — a rule requiring agencies to offset new regulatory costs). The revocations take effect immediately upon signing, removing those binding constraints from all executive agencies.
The order further directs the OMB Director and all agency heads to promptly rescind any rules, regulations, guidelines, or policies issued to implement the revoked orders, and where immediate rescission is not possible, to provide all available exemptions. All personnel positions, committees, and task forces created under those orders — including regulatory reform officers and regulatory reform task forces — must be abolished as appropriate and consistent with applicable law.
Who it affects
All executive departments and agencies, which are immediately freed from the two-for-one rule and associated regulatory cost-accounting requirements. Regulated industries and the public are affected indirectly as agencies regain the flexibility to issue new rules without offsetting eliminations.
Why it matters
Agencies can now propose and finalize new regulations — on public health, environmental policy, financial rules, and other areas — without first eliminating two existing rules or clearing the cost-offset procedures the revoked orders required. Regulatory reform officers embedded in agencies lose their formal mandate.
What must happen and when
How the order is supposed to work
The six revocations are self-executing on signing. The implementation burden then falls on OMB and individual agency heads, who must "promptly" roll back subsidiary rules and guidance — a process subject to the Administrative Procedure Act, meaning some rescissions will require notice-and-comment rulemaking. Where that process cannot be completed immediately, agencies must extend all available exemptions in the interim. Regulatory reform task forces and officer positions established under EO 13777 must also be formally abolished. No reporting deadlines or enforcement triggers are specified beyond the "promptly" standard.
Actions and deadlines
- Rescind all orders, rules, regulations, guidelines, and policies implementing the six revoked executive orders
- Provide all available exemptions where immediate rescission of implementing rules cannot be finalized
- Abolish regulatory reform officer positions, task forces, and other entities established under the revoked orders
Agencies directed to act
Authority and reach
What this order changes
Revokes Executive Order 13771