Executive Order 14295 explained · Executive Order · No disposition noted
Increasing Efficiency at the Office of the Federal Register
Signed: 2025-05-09 Published: 2025-05-14 Federal Register document: 2025-08682
Agencies: Executive Office of the President
What Executive Order 14295 says
Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 92 (Wednesday, May 14, 2025) [Federal Register Volume 90, Number 92 (Wednesday, May 14, 2025)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 20367-20368] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-08682] Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 92 / Wednesday, May 14, 2025 / Presidential Documents [[Page 20367]] Executive Order 14295 of May 9, 2025 Increasing Efficiency at the Office of the Federal Register 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. Deregulation is a critical priority for my Administration. We will foster prosperity by freeing Americans from the heavy burden of Federal regulations accumulated over decades. Although the decision about which regulations to eliminate is sometimes complex, the administrative process of removing a regulation from the Code of Federal Regulations through a rulemaking should be simple. It is not. The Office of the Federal Register frequently takes days or, in some cases, even weeks to publish new regulatory actions. Such delay is unwarranted. The Office of the Federal Register receives final documents that are fully executed by the relevant decisionmakers--all that remains is publication. Yet despite those delays, executive departments...
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Graded 2026-10-08
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Internal executive housekeeping order within clear Article II authority. It speeds publication, modernizes systems, and ties fees to actual cost, with no rights restriction, no power grab, and no due process or property taking.
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✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
President directs subordinate executive officers (Archivist, Office of the Federal Register) on internal administration: publication speed, IT modernization, and fee review. Authority rests in Article II, Section 1 executive power and Article II, Section 3 duty to take care that laws be executed, plus statutory Federal Register Act framework (44 U.S.C. Chapter 15). No new legislative power claimed… -
✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
Order directs internal publication timelines, system modernization, and cost-based fees. It compels no speech, prohibits no belief or assembly, authorizes no search or seizure, and imposes no criminal process or punishment. No provision of Amendments 1-10 is implicated. Consistent with First Amendment and Fourth Amendment non-infringement. -
✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
Order restricts no person in body, property, speech, labor, or belief. It governs internal executive workflow and inter-agency charges, and expressly creates no enforceable burden on private parties per Section 3(c). Stated purpose is to reduce regulatory burden by speeding repeal publication. Government bears no additional justification burden because no individual liberty is curtailed. -
✓ Passes · Decentralization
Publication of federal regulatory documents is an inherently federal ministerial function under Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 and Article II. Individuals, counties, and states cannot publish the Federal Register or Code of Federal Regulations. The order creates no new federal regulatory power over states or persons; it streamlines an existing federal duty at the lowest federal unit responsible f… -
✓ Passes · Due process and takings
No liberty or property deprivation, no criminal adjudication, and no physical or regulatory taking. Fee review requires fees be based on actual costs of publication, reducing arbitrary exaction, consistent with Fifth Amendment Due Process and Takings Clause principles. Reports to OMB create no binding adjudication without notice or hearing.
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