Executive Order 14354 explained · Executive Order · No disposition noted
Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees
Signed: 2025-09-29 Published: 2025-10-06 Federal Register document: 2025-19485
Agencies: Executive Office of the President
Federal Register notes (as of 2026-10-19): Continues: EO 11145, March 7, 1964; EO 11183, October 3, 1964; EO 12382, September 13, 1982; EO 12829, January 6, 1993; EO 12905, March 25, 1994; EO 12916, May 13, 1994; EO 12963, June 14, 1995; EO 12994, March 21, 1996; EO 13179, December 7, 2000; EO 13265, June 6, 2002; EO 13540, April 26, 2010; EO 14109, September 29, 2023; EO 14177, January 23, 2025; EO 14283, April 23, 2025; EO 14291, May 1, 2025 Supersedes (in part): EO 14109, September 29, 2023
What Executive Order 14354 says
Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 191 (Monday, October 6, 2025) [Federal Register Volume 90, Number 191 (Monday, October 6, 2025)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 48145-48146] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-19485] Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 90 , No. 191 / Monday, October 6, 2025 / Presidential Documents [[Page 48145]] Executive Order 14354 of September 29, 2025 Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and consistent with chapter 10 of title 5, United States Code (commonly known as the Federal Advisory Committee Act), it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Each advisory committee listed below is continued until September 30, 2027. (a) Committee for the Preservation of the White House; Executive Order 11145, as amended (Department of the Interior). (b) President's Commission on White House Fellowships; Executive Order 11183, as amended (Office of Personnel Management). (c) President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee; Executive Order 12382, as amended (Department of Homeland Security). (d) National Industrial Security Program Policy Advisory Committee; Executive Order 12829, as amended (National Archives and Records Administration). (e) Trade and...
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Executive Order 14354 is a routine administrative continuance of 22 existing purely advisory committees under the Federal Advisory Committee Act. It exercises lawful Article II executive authority, infringes no rights, imposes no private restriction, takes no property, and consolidates no new federal power.
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✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
The 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, implementing a valid statute: chapter 10 of title 5, U.S. Code, the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Continuing advisory committees to advise executive departments is an executive function, not a claim of new legislative power under Article I, Secti… -
✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
The order creates no restriction on speech, religion, press, assembly, arms, searches, trial rights, or other protections in Amendments 1-10. It merely continues existing advisory bodies and expressly states in Section 5(c) that it creates no enforceable right or benefit. No First Amendment, Second Amendment, Fourth Amendment, or other Bill of Rights provision is implicated. -
✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
The order restricts nothing a person may do with their person, property, speech, labor, or belief. It directs only internal executive-branch advisory continuance until September 30, 2027. No mandate, prohibition, license, or penalty is imposed on private conduct, so no constitutional justification burden is triggered. -
✓ Passes · Decentralization
Under the Tenth Amendment, these functions are already at the minimum necessary level: advising federal departments about federal property and federal programs (White House preservation, national monuments, veterans programs, national security telecommunications). Individuals, counties, and states cannot administer federal agencies or federal lands. The order does not transfer state or local decis… -
✓ Passes · Due process and takings
No person is deprived of life, liberty, or property, and no property is taken. The order orders no enforcement, seizure, fine, or regulation under the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause or Takings Clause, and Section 5(b) requires implementation consistent with applicable law and appropriations. No notice, hearing, or compensation issue arises.
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