Executive Order 14356 explained · Executive Order · No disposition noted
Ensuring Continued Accountability in Federal Hiring
Signed: 2025-10-15 Published: 2025-10-20 Federal Register document: 2025-19614
Agencies: Executive Office of the President
Federal Register notes (as of 2026-10-19): See: EO 14170, January 20, 2025; EO 14210, February 11, 2025
What Executive Order 14356 says
Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 200 (Monday, October 20, 2025) [Federal Register Volume 90, Number 200 (Monday, October 20, 2025)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 48387-48389] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-19614] [[Page 48385]] Vol. 90 Monday, No. 200 October 20, 2025 Part II The President ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Order 14356--Ensuring Continued Accountability in Federal Hiring Notice of October 16, 2025--Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Significant Narcotics Traffickers Centered in Colombia Notice of October 16, 2025--Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Sudan Notice of October 16, 2025--Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to the Democratic Republic of the Congo Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 90 , No. 200 / Monday, October 20, 2025 / Presidential Documents ___________________________________________________________________ Title 3-- The President [[Page 48387]] Executive Order 14356 of October 15, 2025 Ensuring Continued Accountability in Federal Hiring 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. Background. In just 8 months, my Administration has dramatically reduced the size of...
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Constitution Index
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Constitutionally sound
Graded 2026-10-08
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Internal federal hiring control under Article II; no rights curb, no private curb, no upward power move, no loss of process.
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✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
The President directs internal executive-branch workforce policy under Article II, Section 1 vesting of executive power plus Article II, Section 3 duty to see the laws executed, plus Article II, Section 2 role over officers. Congress funds posts under Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 plus Clause 18, but supervision of hiring within funded posts belongs to the executive. The order defers to governing… -
✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
The order sets procedures for federal employment, merit review, committees, plus staffing reports. It bars no speech, press, worship, assembly, petition under First Amendment, imposes no search under Fourth Amendment, compels no testimony under Fifth Amendment, denies no jury or counsel under Sixth plus Seventh Amendments, seizes no arms under Second Amendment, orders no punishment under Eighth Am… -
✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
The order limits only filling of federal posts, not conduct by persons outside government. No private job, speech, belief, worship, movement, property use, or labor is regulated. Burden on private liberty is absent, so no justification test is triggered. -
✓ Passes · Decentralization
Federal clerk staffing cannot be done by persons, towns, counties, or states. It is by nature central executive business. The order does not move power from states or towns upward; it organizes power already vested in the President. So lower levels lose no role. -
✓ Passes · Due process and takings
The order creates no penalty, seizure, or forfeiture, orders no search, holds no proceeding where notice or hearing would be owed under Fifth Amendment or Fourteenth Amendment. It preserves governing law plus funding limits, plus exemptions where enforcement would conflict with law. No property is taken, so Fifth Amendment just-compensation rule is untouched.
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