Executive orders · 2025

Executive Order 14217: Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy

SignedFeb 19, 2025
Published in the Federal RegisterFeb 25, 2025
Citation90 FR 10577 (FR Doc. 2025-03133)
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How the order opens

Section 1 of the order, in its own words (not our summary):

“It is the policy of my Administration to dramatically reduce the size of the Federal Government, while increasing its accountability to the American people.”

Federal Register notes

The Federal Register's own disposition notes for this order: earlier orders it revokes or amends, and related documents.

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