Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos

The order directs all federal agency heads to immediately ensure that officials designated by the President or agency heads have full access to all unclassified agency records, data, and IT systems. It also requires agency heads to immediately open access to comprehensive data from all state programs that receive federal funding, including data held in third-party databases. Separately, the Secretary of Labor must immediately receive unfettered access to all unemployment data and related payment records, including data held by the Department of Labor's Office of Inspector General. The order explicitly supersedes prior executive orders and presidential rules to the extent they block this sharing.

Within 30 days, agency heads must rescind or modify any internal guidance that restricts the sharing described above, and submit a report to the Office of Management and Budget cataloging relevant regulations and recommending whether any should be eliminated. Within 45 days, agency heads must review classified information policies and submit a separate report to OMB. Regulatory changes made pursuant to this order are exempt from the regulatory-review process established by Executive Order 14192.

All federal agency heads and their senior staff, officials designated to access agency data under the order, employees of agencies holding unclassified records, state agencies and third-party vendors managing data from state programs that receive federal funding, and workers whose unemployment payment records are held by the Department of Labor.

State programs funded by Washington — including unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and welfare — must now open their data to federal access, creating a sweeping new data-sharing obligation. Federal employees and state program administrators face immediate operational changes in who can access their records and systems.

Agency heads bear the initial compliance burden: immediately opening access and, within 30 days, rescinding blocking guidance and filing a regulatory-review report to OMB. A separate 45-day report covers classified information policies. OMB receives both sets of reports but the order does not specify what OMB must do with them. Enforcement teeth are limited — the order imposes obligations on agency heads but creates no private right of action and no penalty mechanism for noncompliance. The "maximum extent consistent with law" qualifier preserves existing statutory limits such as the Privacy Act.