Executive Order 14240 explained · Executive Order · No disposition noted
Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement
Signed: 2025-03-20 Published: 2025-03-25 Federal Register document: 2025-05197
Agencies: Executive Office of the President
What Executive Order 14240 says
Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 56 (Tuesday, March 25, 2025) [Federal Register Volume 90, Number 56 (Tuesday, March 25, 2025)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 13671-13672] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-05197] [[Page 13669]] Vol. 90 Tuesday, No. 56 March 25, 2025 Part II The President ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Order 14240--Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement Executive Order 14241--Immediate Measures To Increase American Mineral Production Executive Order 14242--Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities Executive Order 14243--Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos Memorandum of March 20, 2025--Strengthening the Suitability and Fitness of the Federal Workforce Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 90 , No. 56 / Tuesday, March 25, 2025 / Presidential Documents ___________________________________________________________________ Title 3-- The President [[Page 13671]] Executive Order 14240 of March 20, 2025 Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement Section 1. Policy. The Federal Government spends approximately $490 billion per year on Federal contracts for common goods and services--the types of goods and services...
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Executive Order 14240 is a lawful internal management measure directing federal agencies to consolidate routine procurement through GSA where permitted by law. It exercises presidential supervision of the executive branch, creates no public regulation, infringes no rights, and takes no property.
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✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
This is an internal executive-branch management directive, not a new regulatory power over the public. The President directs executive agencies to coordinate procurement through the General Services Administration under 40 U.S.C. 101 and 40 U.S.C. 501. Authority rests on Article II, Section 1 vesting of executive power and Article II, Section 3 duty to take care that the laws be faithfully execute… -
✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
No provision of the Order restricts speech, religion, press, assembly, petition, arms, quartering, searches, self-incrimination, trial rights, jury rights, or punishment. It governs internal federal purchasing of common goods and services. No First through Tenth Amendment right is limited. Citations: First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Tenth Amendment. -
✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
The Order imposes no restriction on any person regarding person, property, speech, labor, or belief. It concerns how federal agencies buy common goods and services. No private conduct is regulated, licensed, compelled, or prohibited, so no burden on individual sovereignty arises and no compelling justification is required. Citations: Ninth Amendment, Tenth Amendment. -
✓ Passes · Decentralization
Federal procurement is an inherently federal function that cannot be performed by individuals, localities, or states. The Order moves routine buying within the federal executive to the General Services Administration, the agency created for that purpose, and expressly acts only where permitted by law. It does not consolidate state or local power upward to the federal level, and does not violate th… -
✓ Passes · Due process and takings
The Order creates no adjudication, penalty, seizure, or taking. It directs proposals and plans for procurement consolidation, subject to applicable law and appropriations, and expressly creates no enforceable right or benefit. No notice, hearing, presumption of innocence, or just compensation interest under the Fifth Amendment is implicated.
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