Revocation of Executive Order 13801

The order revokes Executive Order 13801 of June 15, 2017, which had directed federal agencies to expand apprenticeship programs in America. It instructs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the heads of all executive departments and agencies to promptly consider rescinding any orders, rules, regulations, guidelines, or policies that were issued to implement or enforce the revoked order.

In addition, it requires that any personnel positions, committees, task forces, or other entities established under the 2017 order be abolished, subject to applicable law and the Administrative Procedure Act. The order does not itself change any specific regulation — actual rescissions require separate agency action consistent with existing legal processes.

Federal agencies and departments that established apprenticeship programs, task forces, or positions under EO 13801, the Office of Management and Budget, and employers or training organizations that participated in federally promoted apprenticeship initiatives tied to that order.

Federal apprenticeship promotion structures built under the 2017 order — including any task forces, committees, and implementing rules — face abolition or rescission. Employers and workers who relied on those federal apprenticeship frameworks may see changes to how federal agencies promote or support those programs.

Agency heads and the OMB Director must "promptly consider" rescinding implementing rules and abolishing related entities, but the order leaves timing and scope to each agency's discretion, subject to the Administrative Procedure Act and available appropriations. Actual regulatory rollbacks require separate notice-and-comment rulemaking where the APA demands it. There is no central reporting requirement or fixed deadline imposed by the order itself.