Executive Order 14275 explained · Executive Order · No disposition noted
Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement
Signed: 2025-04-15 Published: 2025-04-18 Federal Register document: 2025-06839
Agencies: Executive Office of the President
Federal Register notes (as of 2026-10-19): See: EO 14192, January 31, 2025
What Executive Order 14275 says
Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 74 (Friday, April 18, 2025) [Federal Register Volume 90, Number 74 (Friday, April 18, 2025)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 16447-16449] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-06839] Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 74 / Friday, April 18, 2025 / Presidential Documents [[Page 16447]] Executive Order 14275 of April 15, 2025 Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. The Federal Government is the largest buyer of goods and services in the world--yet conducting business with the Federal Government is often prohibitively inefficient and costly. More than 40 years ago, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) was implemented to establish uniform procedures for acquisitions across executive departments and agencies (agencies). The ``vision'' of the Federal Acquisition System, codified at section 1.102 of the FAR, is to ``deliver on a timely basis the best value product or service to the customer, while maintaining the public's trust and fulfilling public policy objectives[,]'' but since its inception, the FAR has swelled to more than 2,000 pages of regulations, evolving into an excessive and overcomplicated...
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Constitutionally sound
Graded 2026-10-08
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Executive Order 14275 is a lawful exercise of presidential management of federal procurement. It stays within executive authority, retains statutory requirements, infringes no Bill of Rights protections, expands individual economic liberty by reducing regulatory barriers, respects federalism by addressing an inherently federal function, and denies no due process or property right. Grade A constitutional.
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✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
President acts under Article II, Section 1 vesting of executive power and Article II, Section 3 duty to take care that laws be faithfully executed, directing subordinate executive agencies on procurement. Congress authorized procurement regulation through Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 spending power and Clause 18 necessary and proper power, implemented in statutes such as 41 U.S.C. procurement la… -
✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
No provision restricts speech, religion, press, assembly, petition under First Amendment, arms under Second Amendment, quartering under Third Amendment, searches under Fourth Amendment, or trial and punishment rights under Fifth through Eighth Amendments. The order governs internal executive procurement rules and creates no enforceable right against private parties per Sec. 7(c). No Tenth Amendmen… -
✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
Order imposes no restriction on personal conduct, property, speech, labor, or belief. It removes barriers to doing business with the government and directs elimination of unnecessary FAR provisions per Sec. 2 and Sec. 4, expanding rather than restricting private freedom to contract. No compelling justification needed because no individual liberty is burdened; Ninth Amendment retained rights and Te… -
✓ Passes · Decentralization
Four-question test: (1) Individuals cannot conduct federal procurement for the United States. (2) Local communities cannot manage nearly $1 trillion in federal agency acquisitions. (3) States cannot regulate federal executive procurement. (4) The order does not consolidate upward; it reduces central regulatory burden, directs removal of non-statutory FAR provisions, and requires sunset review unde… -
✓ Passes · Due process and takings
No deprivation of life, liberty, or property under Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause. No taking of private property for public use without just compensation under Fifth Amendment Takings Clause. No retroactive penalty, presumption of guilt, or denial of notice and hearing. Order expressly requires implementation consistent with applicable law and appropriations under Sec. 7(b) and interim guidanc…
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