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Tangentially relevant to AI governance as it signals the current U.S. administration's deregulatory posture and rollback of equity-focused federal mandates, which may influence how AI policy and federal AI initiatives are framed going forward.
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On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order revoking dozens of Biden-era executive orders targeting DEI initiatives, COVID-19 response measures, climate regulations, immigration policies, and worker protections. The order frames these rescissions as restoring 'common sense' and merit-based governance to federal institutions. This represents a significant shift in U.S. federal policy direction across multiple domains.
Key Points
- •Revokes Biden executive orders on racial equity, DEI, and anti-discrimination protections including gender identity and sexual orientation.
- •Rescinds climate and environmental protection orders, including those restoring science-based policymaking to federal agencies.
- •Eliminates COVID-19 pandemic response infrastructure orders including testing boards and equitable recovery measures.
- •Reverses immigration enforcement priority reforms and worker health and safety protections.
- •Frames prior administration's policies as 'inflationary, illegal, and radical,' signaling broad federal policy realignment.
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Initial Rescissions Of Harmful Executive Orders And Actions – The White House
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INITIAL RESCISSIONS OF HARMFUL EXECUTIVE ORDERS AND ACTIONS
The White House
January 20, 2025
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Purpose and Policy. The previous administration has embedded deeply unpopular, inflationary, illegal, and radical practices within every agency and office of the Federal Government. The injection of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) into our institutions has corrupted them by replacing hard work, merit, and equality with a divisive and dangerous preferential hierarchy. Orders to open the borders have endangered the American people and dissolved Federal, State, and local resources that should be used to benefit the American people. Climate extremism has exploded inflation and overburdened businesses with regulation.
To commence the policies that will make our Nation united, fair, safe, and prosperous again, it is the policy of the United States to restore common sense to the Federal Government and unleash the potential of the American citizen. The revocations within this order will be the first of many steps the United States Federal Government will take to repair our institutions and our economy.
Sec. 2. Revocation of Orders and Actions. The following executive actions are hereby revoked:
Executive Order 13985 of January 20, 2021 (Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government).
Executive Order 13986 of January 20, 2021 (Ensuring a Lawful and Accurate Enumeration and Apportionment Pursuant to the Decennial Census).
Executive Order 13987 of January 20, 2021 (Organizing and Mobilizing the United States Government To Provide a Unified and Effective Response To Combat COVID-19 and To Provide United States Leadership on Global Health and Security).
Executive Order 13988 of January 20, 2021 (Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation).
Executive Order 13989 of January 20, 2021 (Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Personnel).
Executive Order 13990 of January 20, 2021 (Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis).
Executive Order 13992 of January 20, 2021 (Revocation of Certain Executive Orders Concerning Federal Regulation).
Executive Order 13993 of January 20, 2021 (Revision of Civil Immigration Enforcement Policies and Priorities).
Executive Order 13995 of January 21, 2021 (Ensuring an Equitable Pandemic Response and Recovery).
Executive Order 13996 of January 21, 2021 (Estab
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