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This page is about providing in layman terms a brief summary to the Executive Orders (EOs) of the President of the United States including a brief commentary (in due process) on each EO from 2017 to current. We are approaching the election soon and believe it wise to monitor the activity of Trump’s administration for preparedness. This will enlighten us on the condition of our country and offer insight on how issues are handled by the administration in our nation’s capital. Below you’ll find in numerical order starting from most current to 2017—the Executive Orders.
CHAPTER 2020 EXECUTIVE ORDERS
AUGUST 2020
- EO 13946: Targeting Opportunity Zones and Other Distressed Communities for Federal Site Locations
- In summary— Executive Order 13946 has made the appropriate amendments to EO 12072 of August 16, 1978 (Federal Space Management) and EO 13006 of May 21, 1996 (Locating Federal Facilities on Historic Properties in our Nation’s Central Cities).
- EO 13945: Fighting the Spread of COVID-19 by Providing Assistance to Renters and Homeowners
- In summary— Executive Order 13945 will attempt to greatly diminish foreclosures and evictions by enabling at least six government agencies to financially assist those who have been financially impacted by COVID-19. The Executive Order may allow for a complete ban of evictions and foreclosures if the CDC deems it necessary to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The government agencies may also incentivize and give financial aid to property owners to prevent evictions and foreclosures.
- EO 13944: Combating Public Health Emergencies and Strengthening National Security by Ensuring Essential Medicines, Medical Countermeasures, and Critical Inputs Are Made in the United States
- In summary—EO 13944 will attempt to reduce American dependence on foreign countries to supply medicine/medical supplies by moving as much medical production to the United States as possible. This shift will be facilitated by limiting imports of many critical supplies from other countries and encouraging local output. This movement may be exempted in situations where transitioning to a largely domestic supply chain increases overall cost of the product by more than 25%.
- EO 13943: Addressing the Threat Posed by WeChat, and Taking Additional Steps To Address the National Emergency With Respect to the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain
- In summary—Executive Order 13943 much like 13942 will attempt to protect American citizens and U. S. government from attempts by the Chinese government to collect data from Americans by making all transactions with WeChat owned by the Chinese company Tencent Holdings Ltd. illegal effective September 21st, 2020, unless you apply for a license that grants an exception.
- In summary—Executive Order 13943 much like 13942 will attempt to protect American citizens and U. S. government from attempts by the Chinese government to collect data from Americans by making all transactions with WeChat owned by the Chinese company Tencent Holdings Ltd. illegal effective September 21st, 2020, unless you apply for a license that grants an exception.
- EO 13942: Addressing the Threat Posed by TikTok, and Taking Additional Steps To Address the National Emergency With Respect to the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain
- In summary—Executive Order 13942 will attempt to protect American citizens and the United States government from attempts by the Chinese government to collect data from Americans by making all transactions with ByteDance Ltd. (owner of TikTok) illegal effective September 21st, 2020, unless you apply for a license that would grant an exception… (click here for commentary)
- EO 13941: Improving Rural Health and Telehealth Access
- In summary—Executive Order 13941 will attempt to improve the health of rural Americans by establishing a new payment model to fund rural healthcare providers so they can give quality care to their patients. It will direct money into developing and updating rural communications infrastructure to help facilitate telephone healthcare. Also, the order will attempt to eliminate regulatory burdens that limit the availability of clinical professionals.
- EO 13940: Aligning Federal Contracting and Hiring Practices With the Interests of American Workers
- In Summary—Executive Order 13940 will attempt to ensure federal contracts use domestic labor by reviewing past federal hiring practices, then taking corrective measures based on findings. There is also language in the order to prevent American workers from being adversely affected by H-1B visa holders.
JULY 2020
- EO 13939: Lowering Prices for Patients by Eliminating Kickbacks to Middlemen
- In Summary—Executive Order 13939 will attempt to lower prices for medications by removing exemptions that allow middlemen to arbitrarily hike up prices on drugs at the expense of Americans and American tax payers.
- EO 13938: Increasing Drug Importation To Lower Prices for American Patients
- In Summary—Executive Order 13938 will attempt to lower prices for medications by removing policies that prohibit foreign produced drugs entering into the United States.
- EO 13937: Access to Affordable Life-Saving Medications
- In Summary—Executive Order 13937 will attempt to lower prices for insulin and epinephrine (popularly used as an EpiPin) for low-income earners by allowing individuals with low incomes to purchase insulin and epinephrine at the much lower negotiated price given to Federal Qualified Health Centers. According to the order this means those individuals could get those drugs for ‘penny pricing.’
- EO 13936: The President’s Executive Order on Hong Kong Normalization
- In Summary—Executive Order 13936 will attempt to make the United States no longer recognize Hong Kong as a distinct autonomous region by removing all preferential treatment given to Hong Kong and instead treating the city as an area governed by China. The order also states that all assets from Hong Kong that are currently in the United States cannot be transferred out of United States. At the end of the order there is a clause that allows for the President to reconsider this executive order if China changes their actions toward Hong Kong.
- EO 13935: White House Hispanic Prosperity Initiative
- In Summary – Executive Order 13935 will attempt to improve the lives of Hispanic citizens by increasing access and awareness to quality educational opportunities that directly benefit Hispanic Americans. The order creates two groups. Working Group will work between government agencies to help facilitate opportunities for Hispanic Americans. The Commission will promote, strengthen, monitor, and advise on how to best increase prosperity to the Hispanic community.
- EO 13934: Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes
- In Summary – Executive Order 13934 will attempt to build and rebuild statues of American’s who made significant contributions to the United States by replacing statues where they were torn down and by creating a National Garden full of statues of American Heroes. Some examples of American Heroes listed in the order are previous Presidents, slavery abolitionists, and those who assisted in discovering America.
JUNE 2020
- EO 13933: Protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues and Combating Recent Criminal Violence
- In Summary—Executive Order 13933 will attempt to protect against and prevent the desecration of federal properties by prosecution to the fullest extent of the law (up to 10 years in prison), and hold governing officials that withhold law enforcement of their duties to protect federal properties accountable by limiting federal grants (funding) for jurisdictions and law enforcement agencies.
- EO 13932: Modernizing and Reforming the Assessment and Hiring of Federal Job Candidates
- In Summary—Executive Order 13932 will attempt a different approach to the hiring process by reviewing and revising all job classification and qualification standards for positions within the competitive service; the idea is to analyze potential and assess abilities of federal job seekers before accepting the ideal candidate for the position. In addition, the heads of agencies will structure the process of employment in a way that does not depend or rely solely on educational attainment but the capacity to perform the work that the position requires through evaluation assessment strategies.
- EO 13931: Continuing the President’s National Council for the American Worker and the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board
- In Summary—Executive Order 13931 will attempt to continue EO 13845 as amended by revising section 10 “Termination of Council. The Council shall terminate on September 30, 2021, unless extended by the President.”
- EO 13930: Strengthening the Child Welfare System for America’s Children
- In Summary—Executive Order 13930 will attempt to promote a child welfare system that reduces the need to place children into foster care. 20,000 young people have aged out of foster care and the percentage of those young people experiencing extraordinary life challenges such as homelessness, PTSD, and pregnancy is high. More than 400,000 children are currently in foster care.
- EO 13929: Safe Policing for Safe Communities
- In Summary—Executive Order 13929 will attempt to address police brutality by only allowing discretionary grant funding to police agencies who follow guidelines laid out in this executive order. These guidelines include being regularly reviewed by third party organizations approved by the Attorney General. There is also a provision in this order to greatly limit the use of a chokehold. Finally, this executive order asks for legislation to be put before congress to better equip police in de-escalation tactics, proper use of force, and handling the mentally impaired or disabled.
- EO 13928: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Associated With the International Criminal Court
- In Summary—Executive Order 13928 will attempt to prohibit the International Criminal Court (ICC) from making any arrests or charges of those residing in United States by freezing all property and assets of those individuals of doing business with the ICC directly or indirectly. It also prohibits all ICC members and their immediate family members from entering into the United States.
- EO 13927: Accelerating the Nation’s Economic Recovery From the COVID-19 Emergency by Expediting Infrastructure Investments and Other Activities
- In Summary—Executive Order 13927 will attempt to mitigate the economic damage due COVID-19 resulting the (14.7% unemployment rate) 41 million americans out of a job by updating old-fashioned regulations and resolving unnecessary bureaucratic issues within agencies powered by infrastructure. This will [theoretically] reduce the amount of time in economic recovery and provide world-class infrastructure. Let’s get to work!
- EO 13926: Advancing International Religious Freedom
- In Summary—Executive Order 13926 will attempt to make the practice of religious freedom accessible to all people in the world by allocating 50 million dollars to promote organizations and programs that facilitate religious freedom and by making religious freedom a key component of all foreign diplomacy.
MAY 2020
- EO 13925: Preventing Online Censorship
- In Summary—Executive Order 13925 will attempt to prevent online public forums such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc.. from censoring certain political views or content by potentially removing liability protections from companies who engage in censorship.
- EO 13924: Regulatory Relief To Support Economic Recovery
- In Summary—Executive Order 13924 will attempt to facilitate economic recovery from the results of COVID19 by temporarily removing regulations that inhibit business growth. All regulations that are temporarily removed should be considered for permanent removal, especially if the absence of those regulation help stimulate the economy.
- EO 13923: Establishment of the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force Under Section 741 of the United States- Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act
- In Summary—Executive Order 13923 will attempt to prevent products from entering the United States that were made by forced (slave, convict, indentured) labor by creating a task force designed to monitor the enforcement of the Tariff Act of 1930 – 19 U.S.C. 1307.
- EO 13922: Delegating Authority Under the Defense Production Act to the Chief Executive Officer of the United States International Development Finance Corporation To Respond to the COVID-19 Outbreak
- In Summary—Executive Order 13922 will attempt to make key resources available to help the U.S. safely through the COVID19 outbreaks by taking powers that will allow the president to initiate strategic production of goods.
- EO 13921: Promoting American Seafood Competitiveness and Economic Growth
- In Summary—Executive Order 13921 will attempt to remove unnecessary rules preventing producers, combat illegal fishing, help with permitting fishermen, safeguard domestic aquatic environment, exercise peaceful trade and hold seafood that will be imported to the American food-safety requirements.
- EO 13920: Securing the United States Bulk-Power System
- In Summary—Executive Order 13920 will attempt to prevent and guard against terrorism by means of licensing attempted “agreements” with foreign countries involving the United States Bulk Bulk-Power System. The Secretary with consultation of appropriate agencies will interpret the relationship between bulk-power system electric equipment and the agencies in contract with foreign adversaries to prevent terrorism and protect the U.S.A. from the risk of catastrophic events.
APRIL 2020
- EO 13919: Ordering the Selected Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty
- In Summary—Executive Order 13919 will attempt to use no more than 200 Reserved armed forces for 365 consecutive days in the mission of “Enhanced Department of Defense Counternarcotics Operation in the Western Hemisphere,”.
- EO 13918: Establishment of the Interagency Labor Committee for Monitoring and Enforcement Under Section 711 of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act
- In Summary—Executive Order 13918 will attempt to serve as a mediary and enforcer to the labor obligations of Canada and Mexico; this Committee is established to monitor the implementation and maintenance of Mexico’s labor reform. The Committee shall endeavor to make any decision on an action or determination under sections 712 through 719 of the Act by consensus.
- EO 13917: Delegating Authority Under the Defense Production Act With Respect to Food Supply Chain Resources During the National Emergency Caused by the Outbreak of COVID- 19
- In Summary—Executive Order 13917 will attempt to delegate authority under the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4501) and to implement the Act in subchapter III of chapter 55 of title 50, United States Code (50 U.S.C. 4554, 4555, 4556, 4559, 4560) for the Secretary of Agriculture to determine the proper nationwide priorities and allocation of all the materials, services, and facilities necessary to ensure the continued supply of meat and poultry, consistent with the guidance for the operations of meat and poultry processing facilities jointly issued by the CDC and OSHA.
- EO 13916: National Emergency Authority To Temporarily Extend Deadlines for Certain Estimated Payments
- In Summary—Executive Order 13916 will attempt to grant The Secretary authority to temporarily extend deadlines, for importers suffering significant financial hardship because of COVID-19, for the estimated payments described therein.
- EO 13915: Providing an Order of Succession Within the Department of the Interior
- In Summary—Executive Order 13915 will attempt to grant the functions and duties to described successors of the office of Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) during any period when both the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary of the Interior have died, resigned, or are otherwise unable to perform the functions and duties of the office of Secretary.
- EO 13914: Encouraging International Support for the Recovery and Use of Space Resources
- In Summary—Executive Order 13914 will attempt to maintain detachment from the “Moon Agreement” due uncertainty, and differences contributed through the Moon Agreement and the 1967 Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space. However, it’s Americas’ objective to encourage international support for the public and private recovery and use of resources in outer space, consistent with applicable law.
- EO 13913: Establishing the Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications Services Sector
- In Summary—Executive Order 13913 will attempt to assist the FCC in its public interest review of national security and law enforcement concerns that may be raised by foreign participation in the United States telecommunications services sector. The function of the Committee shall be to review applications and licenses for risks to national security and law enforcement interests, and to respond to any risks presented by applications or licenses by recommending to the FCC, as appropriate and consistent with the provisions of this order, that it dismiss an application, deny an application, condition the grant of an application upon compliance with mitigation measures, modify a license with a condition of compliance with mitigation measures, or revoke a license.
MARCH 2020
- EO 13912: National Emergency Authority To Order the Selected Reserve and Certain Members of the Individual Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty
- In Summary—Executive Order 13912 will attempt to ensure appropriate consultation is undertaken with relevant state officials with respect to the utilization of National Guard Reserve Component units activated under this authority; order to active duty not to exceed 24 consecutive months, such units, and individual members of the Ready Reserve under the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned, not to exceed 1,000,000 members on active duty at any one time.
- EO 13911: Delegating Additional Authority Under the Defense Production Act With Respect to Health and Medical Resources To Respond to the Spread of COVID-19
- In Summary—Executive Order 13911 will attempt to justify healthcare systems surge capacity and capability to respond to the spread of COVID-19 by expanding domestic production of health and medical resources needed to respond to the spread of COVID-19, including personal protective equipment and ventilators; Authority is granted under title III of the Act to guarantee loans by private institutions, make loans, make provision for purchases and commitments to purchase, and take additional actions to create, maintain, protect, expand, and restore domestic industrial base capabilities to produce such resources.
- EO 13910: Preventing Hoarding of Health and Medical Resources To Respond to the Spread of COVID-19
- In Summary—Executive Order 13910 will attempt to grant the Secretary the President’s authority under section 102 of the Act (50 U.S.C. 4512) to prevent hoarding of health and medical resources necessary to respond to the spread of COVID-19 within the United States.
- EO 13909: Prioritizing and Allocating Health and Medical Resources to Respond to the Spread of COVID-19
- In Summary—Executive Order 13909 will attempt to require performance of contracts or orders (other than contracts of employment) to promote the national defense over performance of any other contracts or orders, to allocate materials, services, and facilities as deemed necessary or appropriate to promote the national defense, and to implement the Act in subchapter III of chapter 55 of title 50, United States Code, is delegated to the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to all health and medical resources needed to respond to the spread of COVID-19 within the United States.
FEBRUARY 2020
- EO 13908: Establishment of the Interagency Committee on Trade in Automotive Goods Under Section 202A of the United States Mexico Canada Agreement Implementation Act
- In Summary—Executive Order 13908 will attempt to provide advice, as appropriate, on the implementation, enforcement, and modification of provisions of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (Agreement) that relate to automotive goods, including the automotive rules of origin and the alternative staging regime that are part of such rules. This establishment will also review the operation of the Agreement with respect to trade in automotive goods, including the economic effects of the automotive rules of origin on the United States economy, workers, and consumers, and the impact of new technology on such rules.
- EO 13907: Establishment of the Interagency Environment Committee for Monitoring and Enforcement Under Section 811 of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act
- In Summary—Executive Order 13907 will attempt to coordinate United States efforts to monitor and enforce environmental obligations consistent with title VIII of the Act and, with respect to Mexico and Canada, to carry out assessments of their environmental laws and policies, to carry out monitoring actions with respect to the implementation and maintenance of their environmental obligations, and to request enforcement actions as provided for in section 814 of the Act.
- EO 13906: Amending Executive Order 13803 Reviving the National Space Council
- In Summary—Executive Order 13906 will attempt to amend by revising Section 2(b) of Executive Order 13803 of June 30, 2017 (Reviving the National Space Council) and revoking the first sentence of section 4(c) of Executive Order 13803.
- EO 13905: Strengthening National Resilience Through Responsible Use of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Services
- In Summary—Executive Order 13905 will attempt to increase the Nation’s awareness of the extent to which critical infrastructure depends on, or is enhanced by, PNT services, and it must ensure critical infrastructure can withstand disruption or manipulation of PNT services. Within 1 year of the date of this order, the Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with the heads of SSAs and in consultation, as appropriate, with the private sector, shall develop and make available, to at least the appropriate agencies and private sector users, PNT profiles.
JANUARY 2020
- EO 13904: Ensuring Safe and Lawful E-Commerce for United States Consumers, Businesses, Government Supply Chains, and Intellectual Property Rights Holders
- In Summary—Executive Order 13904 will attempt to consider all appropriate actions that it can take to ensure that the persons that CBP suspends or debars are excluded from participating in the importation of merchandise into the United States. E-commerce, including transactions involving smaller express-carrier or international mail packages, is being exploited by traffickers to introduce contraband into the United States, and by foreign exporters and United States importers to avoid applicable customs duties, taxes, and fees. This order will ensure that parcels containing contraband be kept outside of the United States to the greatest extent possible and that all parties who participate in the introduction or attempted introduction of such parcels into the United States be held accountable under the laws of the United States.
- EO 13903: Combating Human Trafficking and Online Child Exploitation in the United States
- In Summary—Executive Order 13903 will attempt to
- EO 13902: Imposing Sanctions With Respect to Additional Sectors of Iran
- In Summary—Executive Order 13902 will attempt to
CHAPTER 2019 EXECUTIVE ORDERS
DECEMBER 2020
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