President Donald Trump started his second term with a flurry of executive orders on Monday, many of which he signed live for a cheering audience before throwing pens into a crowd of MAGA true-believers. Some of the most egregious orders are already being challenged in court, including Trump’s attempts to change the very definition of U.S. citizenship and to overhaul the federal workforce. Many more will be before judges soon.
Tucked inside many of the orders are homework assignments for the Trump administration with hard deadlines — for strategies to be drafted about enforcing the gender binary (within 30 days), for meetings to be held about fighting DEI and environmental justice (monthly), and for a certain body of water to be formally renamed (also within 30 days). The first Trump administration blew past many of these deadlines, so The Intercept is once again compiling them.
As we wade into Trump 2.0, we’ll see if the administration can keep up with the paperwork. Here’s a sampling:
Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship
(signed Jan. 20, 2025)
- Within 30 days: Agency and department heads shall issue public guidance regarding implementing the order with respect to their operations.
Clarifying the Military’s Role in Protecting the Territorial Integrity of the United States (signed Jan. 20, 2025)
- Within 10 days: Secretary of Defense shall deliver to the President a revision to the Unified Command Plan that “assigns United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) the mission to seal the borders and maintain the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of the United States by repelling forms of invasion including unlawful mass migration, narcotics trafficking, human smuggling and trafficking, and other criminal activities.”
Declaring a National Emergency at the Southern Border of the United States (signed Jan. 20, 2025)
- Within 30 days: Secretary of Defense shall submit a report outlining all actions taken to fulfill the emergency proclamation’s requirements and objectives.
- Within 90 days: Secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security shall submit a joint report to the President about the conditions at the southern border with recommendations, “including whether to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807.”
Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness (signed Jan. 20, 2025)
- Review due within 7 days: All agencies that appoint members to the Board on Geographic Names “shall review their respective appointees and consider replacing” them.
- Within 30 days: Secretary of the Interior shall reinstate the name “Mount McKinley” for Denali.
- Within 30 days: Secretary of the Interior shall rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.”
Protecting the American People Against Invasion (signed Jan. 20, 2025)
- Within 90 days: Secretaries of Treasury and Homeland Security shall submit a report to the President regarding their progress on collecting fines and penalties from unauthorized immigrants.
Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (signed Jan. 20, 2025)
- Within 14 days: Secretary of State shall make a recommendation regarding designating international cartels and transnational organizations like Tren de Aragua (TdA) and La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) as a “foreign terrorist organization” and/or “specially designated global terrorist.”
- Within 14 days: Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security shall take “all appropriate action” to “make operational preparations regarding the implementation of any decision [Trump] make[s] to invoke the Alien Enemies Act.”
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Global Tax Deal (Global Tax Deal) (signed Jan. 20, 2025)
- Report due within 60 days: Secretary of Treasury will deliver findings following investigation of foreign countries’ compliance with tax treaties along with “a list of options for protective measures or other actions that the United States should adopt or take in response to such non-compliance or tax rules.”
Reforming the Federal Hiring Process and Restoring Merit to Government Service (signed Jan. 20, 2025)
- Within 120 days: The Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy shall send a “Federal Hiring Plan” to all agency heads that “brings to the Federal workforce only highly skilled Americans dedicated to the furtherance of American ideals, values, and interests.”
Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing (signed Jan. 20, 2025)
- Within 60 days: All agency, department, and commission heads shall “terminate, to the maximum extent allowed by law” all DEI and environmental justice activities, including offices/positions, grants/contracts, and performance evaluations.
- Within 60 days: All agency, department, and commission heads shall provide the director of the Office of Management and Budget an accounting of all DEI and environmental justice activities as of November 4, 2024; all contractors who provided DEI training materials; all grantees who received federal funding for DEI or environmental justice positions since January 20, 2021.
- Within 60 days: All agency, department, and commission heads shall direct their deputy head to assess the impact and cost of prior DEI and environmental justice activities and recommend actions.
- Monthly: The Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy shall convene a meeting with the Director of OMB, the Director of OPM, and each deputy agency or department head about the “economic and social costs” of DEI and environmental justice activities.
Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government (signed Jan. 20, 2025)
- Within 30 days: Secretary of Health and Human Services shall issue “public clear guidance expanding on the sex-based definitions set forth” in the order.
- Within 30 days: The Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs shall present to the President proposed bill text to codify the definitions in this order.
- Within 120 days: Each agency head shall submit an update to the President about “changes to agency documents” and “agency-imposed requirements on federally funded entities, including contractors” to comply with the order.
Establishing and Implementing the President’s “Department Of Government Efficiency” (signed Jan. 20, 2025)
- Within 30 days: Each agency shall establish a “DOGE Team” of at least four employees.
- By July 4, 2026: Complete work and terminate DOGE.
Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats (signed Jan. 20, 2025)
- Within 60 days: Secretary of State, Attorney General, Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Director of National Intelligence shall jointly submit to the President a report identifying “countries throughout the world for which vetting and screening information is so deficient as to warrant a partial or full suspension on the admission of nationals from those countries.”
- Within 30 days: Secretary of State, Attorney General, Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Director of National Intelligence shall evaluate and adjust “all existing regulations” pertaining to inadmissible aliens; evaluate “all visa programs”; ensure adequate resources are devoted to revoking naturalizations; and other sweeping requirements.
Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid (signed Jan. 20, 2025)
- Within 90 days: All department and agency heads with foreign aid responsibilities shall review all programs “for programmatic efficiency and consistency with United States foreign policy,” and make determinations about whether to continue, modify, or cease the program.
Declaring a National Energy Emergency (signed Jan. 20, 2025)
- Within 30 days (and every 30 days thereafter): Agency heads shall submit reports regarding “planned or potential actions to facilitate the Nation’s energy supply” that may be eligible for emergency permitting treatment by the Army Corps and the Environmental Protection Agency.
- Within 30 days (and every 30 days thereafter): Agency heads shall submit reports regarding emergency consultations under the Endangered Species Act.
- Within 60 days: Secretary of Defense shall submit an assessment of DoD’s “ability to acquire and transport the energy, electricity, or fuels needed to protect the homeland and to conduct operations abroad.”
Restoring Accountability for Career Senior Executives (signed Jan. 20, 2025)
- Within 30 days: The Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall issue “Performance Plans” for Career Senior Executive Service (SES) officials, which “agencies must adopt.”
Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture (signed Jan. 20, 2025)
- Within 60 days: Administrator of the General Services Administration shall submit “recommendations to advance the policy that Federal public buildings should be visually identifiable as civic buildings and respect regional, traditional, and classical architectural heritage in order to uplift and beautify public spaces and ennoble the United States and our system of self-government.”
Putting People Over Fish: Stopping Radical Environmentalism to Provide Water to Southern California (signed Jan. 20, 2025)
- Within 90 days: Secretary of Commerce and Secretary of the Interior shall report regarding the progress made in routing more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to other parts of California.
Securing Our Borders (signed Jan. 20, 2025)
- Within 14 days: Secretary of State, Attorney General, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide recommendations “regarding the use of any other authority to protect the United States from foreign threats and secure the southern border.”
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