Additional Measures To Combat Anti-Semitism

The order reaffirms Executive Order 13899 (December 2019), which directed agencies to apply federal civil-rights laws to protect Jewish Americans, and asserts that the prior administration failed to implement it fully. It directs every federal agency head to submit a report to the President within 60 days, routed through the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, identifying civil and criminal authorities available to combat antisemitism beyond those already used under EO 13899, along with an inventory of pending administrative complaints against institutions of higher education related to post-October 7, 2023 antisemitism. The Attorney General's report must also cover pending and active court cases, and the Secretary of Education's must cover Title VI complaints in both K-12 and higher education. The Attorney General is specifically encouraged to use federal civil-rights conspiracy law (18 U.S.C. 241).

The Secretaries of State, Education, and Homeland Security must also include recommendations for helping colleges and universities identify and report activities by foreign students and staff that may constitute grounds for inadmissibility under immigration law, so that such reports may lead, where appropriate, to investigations and potential removal of those individuals.

All federal executive agencies required to file reports; the Departments of Justice, Education, State, and Homeland Security with additional reporting requirements; colleges, universities, and K-12 schools subject to federal civil-rights oversight; Jewish students and other individuals who have filed or may file civil-rights complaints; and foreign national students and staff at higher education institutions.

Federal agencies must now inventory their legal tools and pending antisemitism cases in a compressed 60-day window, which could accelerate enforcement action at colleges and universities. The provision directing monitoring and reporting of foreign students' activities under immigration inadmissibility grounds could affect visa holders on campuses nationwide.

All agency reports flow to the President through the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy within 60 days. The reports are inventories and analyses, not self-executing enforcement actions — the order sets up a structured fact-finding process that positions the administration to direct follow-on enforcement. The Attorney General is encouraged (not required) to use 18 U.S.C. 241 as an enforcement tool. The State-Education-DHS consultation on inadmissibility reporting creates an interagency mechanism but leaves the actual investigation and removal decisions to existing legal processes. No explicit penalty for missed report deadlines is stated.