Presidential Memorandum 2025-02033 explained · Presidential Memorandum
Memorandum To Resolve the Backlog of Security Clearances for Executive Office of the President Personnel
Signed: 2025-01-20 Published: 2025-01-30 Federal Register document: 2025-02033
Agencies: Executive Office of the President
What Presidential Memorandum 2025-02033 says
Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 19 (Thursday, January 30, 2025) [Federal Register Volume 90, Number 19 (Thursday, January 30, 2025)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 8477-8478] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-02033] Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 19 / Thursday, January 30, 2025 / Presidential Documents [[Page 8477]] Memorandum of January 20, 2025 Memorandum To Resolve the Backlog of Security Clearances for Executive Office of the President Personnel Memorandum to the White House Counsel The Executive Office of the President requires qualified and trusted personnel to execute its mandate on behalf of the American people. There is a backlog created by the Biden Administration in the processing of security clearances of individuals hired to work in the Executive Office of the President. Because of this backlog and the bureaucratic process and broken security clearance process, individuals who have not timely received the appropriate clearances are ineligible for access to the White House complex, infrastructure, and technology and are therefore unable to perform the duties for which they were hired. This is unacceptable. Therefore, by the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order: 1. The White House Counsel to...
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