Presidential Memorandum 2025-02042 explained · Presidential Memorandum
Restoring Accountability for Career Senior Executives
Signed: 2025-01-20 Published: 2025-01-30 Federal Register document: 2025-02042
Agencies: Executive Office of the President
What Presidential Memorandum 2025-02042 says
Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 19 (Thursday, January 30, 2025) [Federal Register Volume 90, Number 19 (Thursday, January 30, 2025)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 8481-8482] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-02042] Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 19 / Thursday, January 30, 2025 / Presidential Documents [[Page 8481]] Memorandum of January 20, 2025 Restoring Accountability for Career Senior Executives Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies Career Senior Executive Service (SES) officials are charged to ``ensure that the executive management of the Government of the United States is responsive to the needs, policies, and goals of the Nation and otherwise is of the highest quality,'' as required by section 3131 of title 5, United States Code. SES officials have enormous influence over the functioning of the Federal Government, and thus the well-being of hundreds of millions of Americans. As the Constitution makes clear, and as the Supreme Court of the United States has reaffirmed, ``the `executive Power'--all of it--is `vested in a President,' who must `take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.' '' Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 591 U.S. 197, 203 (2020). ``Because no single person could fulfill that responsibility alone, the Framers...
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