Revocation of Certain Presidential Actions and Technical Amendment
Revokes six executive orders from the prior administration covering topics such as online censorship, federal monuments, foreign aid branding, and regulatory overcriminalization, while directing agencies to dismantle the rules and bodies those orders created.
Separately updates the civil service rules to formally remove 'Schedule F' from the list of excepted-service categories, codifying a January 2021 order that had already eliminated that personnel classification.
What this order does
What it orders
The order revokes six prior executive orders: EO 13925 (Preventing Online Censorship), EO 13933 (Protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues), EO 13934 (Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes), EO 13964 (Rebranding United States Foreign Assistance), EO 13978 (Building the National Garden of American Heroes), and EO 13980 (Protecting Americans From Overcriminalization Through Regulatory Reform). It directs the OMB Director and all agency heads to promptly consider rescinding regulations, rules, and guidelines that implemented those orders, and to abolish any committees, task forces, or positions created under them. It also amends Civil Service Rule VI — specifically 5 CFR 6.2 and 6.4 — to rewrite the list of excepted-service schedules, dropping Schedule F and updating Schedule E for administrative law judges.
The order does not itself complete all rescissions; it instructs agencies to take those steps "as appropriate and consistent with applicable law," including the Administrative Procedure Act, meaning some implementing rules may require formal rulemaking to undo. It creates no new rights or benefits enforceable against the United States.
Who it affects
Federal agencies and their staff who created programs, positions, committees, or task forces under the six revoked orders; federal civil service employees and job applicants affected by the Schedule F removal codified in the civil service rule update; and entities such as social media platforms that were subject to EO 13925.
Why it matters
Agencies must wind down programs and bodies that were operating under the six revoked orders, which could affect ongoing contracting, staffing, and program activity. The Schedule F civil service rule amendment formally removes a personnel classification that, if reinstated, could have stripped civil service protections from a wide category of federal employees.
What must happen and when
How the order is supposed to work
Agency heads and the OMB Director review all rules, regulations, guidelines, and policies implementing the six revoked orders and decide which to rescind — subject to APA notice-and-comment requirements where applicable. Committees and task forces created under those orders are abolished. The civil service rule amendment takes effect with the order and requires no further rulemaking; it updates 5 CFR 6.2 and 6.4 directly. No reporting chain or enforcement mechanism is specified beyond the general instruction to act "promptly" and "consistent with applicable law."
Actions and deadlines
- Consider and rescind rules, regulations, and guidelines implementing the six revoked executive orders
- Abolish committees, task forces, and personnel positions created under the six revoked orders
Agencies directed to act
Authority and reach
What this order changes
Revokes Executive Order 13925