Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions

The order immediately revokes 78 prior executive actions — executive orders and presidential memoranda — issued between January 2021 and January 2025. The revoked actions span DEI programs across the federal workforce, climate and environmental policy, immigration enforcement priorities, LGBTQ+ anti-discrimination protections, COVID-19 response infrastructure, healthcare access, policing reform, refugee resettlement, and the prior administration's artificial intelligence governance framework.

It also directs agency heads to immediately halt federal DEI implementation and instructs the Directors of the Domestic Policy Council and National Economic Council to review all actions taken under the revoked orders, then submit within 45 days an additional rescission list and proposed replacement orders. The National Security Advisor must separately review all National Security Memoranda issued from January 20, 2021, through January 20, 2025, and recommend rescissions within the same 45-day window.

Federal agencies and their employees whose programs were built on the revoked orders; federal contractors subject to DEI or pay-equity requirements; LGBTQ+ federal workers; recipients of refugee and asylum programs; state and local governments that relied on federal climate or immigration partnerships; and private-sector entities subject to AI governance rules.

Dozens of federal programs instantly lose their executive-order authority, forcing agencies to halt activities ranging from DEI offices to clean-energy sustainability plans to immigration processing systems. Contractors, grantees, and individuals whose benefits or protections rested on the revoked orders face immediate legal and operational uncertainty.

The revocations take effect at signing; no further agency action is needed to void the listed orders. Agency heads must act immediately on DEI programs. The DPC and NEC directors then conduct a broader review — reporting back in 45 days with additional rescission targets and replacement proposals — creating a rolling second wave of policy changes. The NSA's parallel NSM review operates on the same 45-day clock. The order contains a standard severability-style provision stating it creates no enforceable rights against the government.