Compliance With Trump
Administration Changes
Welcome to the Trump EO Resource Page, your centralized platform for staying informed about the executive orders rescinded or published by President Trump during his administration. This resource page is designed to provide detailed updates, insights, and critical information to help you understand the impact and implications of these changes.
Executive Orders
| Executive Order Title* | Summary |
|---|---|
| Addressing Risks from Perkins Coie LLP (March 6, 2025) | Requires federal contractors to disclose any business done with Perkins Coie and if it is related to federal contract and requires investigations of law firms for “illegal DEI” by the EEOC and Attorney General in coordination with EEOC and the states’ Attorneys General. |
| Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Deregulatory Initiative (EO 14219) - February 19, 2025 | Establishes a process to rescind “unlawful regulations and regulations that undermine national interest.” Directs all agencies in coordination with DOGE and OMB to review all regulations and to provide a list of regulations to be modified or rescinded. Further directs “de-prioritizing” enforcement actions with respect to regulations that do not comply with the Constitution, law or Administration policy. |
| Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies (EO 14215) - February 18, 2025 | Provides for presidential supervision over independent regulatory agencies and independent agency heads; orders independent agencies to submit proposed and final regulations for White House review; directs OMB to adjust independent agencies’ apportionments. |
| Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling (EO 14190) - January 29, 2025 | Addresses public school education, and includes a definition of "Discriminatory equity ideology" may influence how "illegal DEI" is defined in other EOs and prohibited DEI training. |
| Restoring America's Fighting (EO 14185) - January 27, 2025 | Eliminates DEI initiatives in the military (similar to other EOs seeking to eliminate DEI programs/initiatives from the civilian and federal workforce, federal contracting, and within the private sector). Includes a definition of "DEI Office" that may influence how "illegal DEI" is defined in other EOs. |
| Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity (EO 14173) - January 21, 2025 | Revokes EO 11246. Adds new obligations for federal contractors to certify that they do not operate any "illegal DEI." Encourages the private sector to end illegal discrimination and preferences by directing federal agencies to make lists of potential targets of investigations/litigation for having engaged in "illegal DEI." Requires higher education institutions to comply with the Supreme Court's ruling in SFFA v Harvard College eliminating affirmative action. |
| Reforming the Federal Hiring Process and Restoring Merit to Government Service (EO 14170) - January 20, 2025 | Establishes the Administration's promotion of data analytics to ensure merit-based hiring in federal sector. |
| Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government (EO 14168) - January 20, 2025 | Directs federal agencies and federal employees to define, interpret, and change documents/policies to reflect "sex" as an immutable binary biological classification that is determined at conception as either male or female and exclusionary of "gender." Requires federal agencies to restrict private spaces based on sex. |
| Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing (EO 14151) - January 20, 2025 | Eliminates DEI offices and initiatives across the federal government. Federal agencies are to provide the OMB Director with a list of federal contractors who have provided DEI training or DEI training materials to agency or department employees. |
*EO numbers assigned when published in the Federal Register, which we willl update as further information becomes available.
Other Federal Materials
| Related Policy | Summary |
|---|---|
| What You Should Know About DEI-Related Discrimination at Work - March 19, 2025 | Technical Assistance Document providing employers and employees with information in a Q&A format on DEI initiatives, policies, programs, or practices that may be unlawful if they involve an employer or other covered entity taking an employment action motivated—in whole or in part—by an employee’s or applicant’s race, sex, or another protected characteristic. |
| What to Do if You Experience Discrimination Related to DEI at Work - March 19, 2025 | Technical Assistance Document providing steps on what to do if an employee experiences DEI discrimination in the workplace. |
| Department of Education: FAQs about Racial Preferences and Stereotypes Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act - February 28, 2025 | The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights issued FAQs that provide insight into types of DEI practices that the agency may scrutinize as unlawful (e.g., programming that excludes or discourages members of a particular race; mandating training focused on racial stereotypes) and the types of evidence investigators may consider to determine whether DEI policies are discriminatory (e.g., factual patterns, statistics, or foreseeability of effects on members of a particular race). Although the FAQs are related to schools, other agencies may adopt similar definitions and guidance for other sectors. |
| Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Reins in Independent Agencies to Restore a Government that Answers to the American People - February 18, 2025 | Reiterates how the president will advise and oversee independent regulatory agencies moving forward under “Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies”; names the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as examples of independent agencies now under the president’s supervision; relies on the constitution as the basis for the president overseeing all executive agencies, including independent regulatory agencies. |
| FCC Letter to Comcast Corp. re Investigation into “Promotion of DEI” - February 11, 2025 | FCC Chairman Brendan Carr notified Comcast and NBCUniversal that the FCC has opened an investigation into whether the companies’ DEI initiatives violate the FCC’s anti-discrimination regulations and/or civil rights laws, and requested the companies provide to FCC’s Enforcement Bureau an accounting of DEI initiatives, preferences, policies, programs, and activities, regardless of how labeled. |
| Attorney General Memo: Eliminating Internal Discriminatory Practices - February 5, 2025 | The Attorney General addresses how the Department of Justice (DOJ) will comply with and apply EO 14173 directives. The Attorney General ordered updates to DOJ’s guidance, which should include narrowing the use of “disparate impact” theories and emphasizing “that statistical disparities alone do not automatically constitute unlawful discrimination.” |
| Attorney General Memo: Ending Illegal DEI and DEIA Discrimination and Preferences - February 5, 2025 | The Attorney General published a memorandum stating that the DOJ's Civil Rights Division "will investigate, eliminate, and penalize illegal DEI and DEIA preferences, mandates, policies, programs, and activities in the private sector and in educational institutions that receive federal funds." |
| OPM Memo: Further Guidance Regarding Ending DEIA Offices, Programs and Initiatives - February 5, 2025 | OPM published a three-page memorandum directing agencies to discontinue Special Emphasis Programs (SEPs) and certain programs related to equal employment opportunity, disability accessibility and accommodation, and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). OPM further directs agencies to dismantle DEIA offices, policies, programs, and practices (including those outside of DEIA offices) that unlawfully discriminate in any employment action or term, condition, or privilege of employment. According to OPM, this includes efforts related to recruitment, interviewing, hiring, internships, fellowships, promotions, retention, discipline, and separation, among others. |
| Acting Secretary of Labor's Order 03-2025 - January 24, 2025 | Acting Secretary of Labor ordered all DOL employees to immediately cease and desist all investigative enforcement activity under EO 11246 and the underlying regulations, including all pending cases, conciliation agreements, investigations, complaints, and any other enforcement-related or investigative activity. Holds in abeyance Section 503 and VEVRAA reviews and investigations. |
| GSA's Policy Statement Regarding Intent to Suspend Enforcement of Contractual DEI Terms in Existing Agreements - January 22, 2025 | GSA announced that it is forbearing enforcement of all contract clauses, provisions, terms, and conditions related to "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI). |
| Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Protects Civil Rights and Merit-Based Opportunity By Ending Illegal DEI - January 22, 2025 | Highlights that "Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity" revoked EO 11246, bars OFCCP from enforcement of 11246, and requires "simple and unmistakable affirmation that contractors will not engage in illegal discrimination, including illegal DEI." |
Challenges to Trump Administration Changes
FortneyScott Webinars
FortneyScott EEOC Webinar
Feb 25, 2025
FortneyScott presents one of a series of webinars regarding Trump's Administration Changes, specifically, the EEOC. Presenters David Fortney, H. Juanita Beecher, and Leslie Silverman discuss what employers need to know in navigating through these significant workforce changes.
FortneyScott Latest Developments Webinar
MARCH 12, 2025
FortneyScott presents one of a series of webinars regarding Trump's Administration Changes, specifically, the latest developments. Presenters David Fortney, H. Juanita Beecher, Leslie Silverman, and Elizabeth Bradley discuss what employers need to know in navigating through these significant workforce changes.
FortneyScott Higher Ed Webinar
March 25, 2025
FortneyScott presents one of a series of webinars regarding Trump's Administration Changes, specifically, higher education. Presenters H. Juanita Beecher and Elizabeth Bradley discuss what employers need to know in navigating through these significant workforce changes.
FortneyScott Podcasts
FortneyScott regularly releases podcasts under its DC Insider - Employer Updates. FortneyScott has released three recent podcasts covering recent Trump Administration changes and what employers need to know including:
- President Trump and the Workforce Agencies (April 8, 2025),
- EEOC Demands DEI Data from 20 Law Firms (Mar. 21, 2025), and
- Unitary Executive Claims Power Over Agencies (Mar. 5, 2025).
