Executive Order 14368 explained · Executive Order · No disposition noted
Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
Signed: 2025-12-18 Published: 2025-12-23 Federal Register document: 2025-23844
Agencies: Executive Office of the President
What Executive Order 14368 says
Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 244 (Tuesday, December 23, 2025) [Federal Register Volume 90, Number 244 (Tuesday, December 23, 2025)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 60521-60535] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-23844] [[Page 60519]] Vol. 90 Tuesday, No. 244 December 23, 2025 Part V The President ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Order 14368--Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay Executive Order 14369--Ensuring American Space Superiority Executive Order 14370--Increasing Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research Executive Order 14371--Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on December 24, 2025, and December 26, 2025 Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 90 , No. 244 / Tuesday, December 23, 2025 / Presidential Documents ___________________________________________________________________ Title 3-- The President [[Page 60521]] Executive Order 14368 of December 18, 2025 Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay 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. Statutory Pay Systems. The rates of basic pay or salaries of the statutory pay systems (as defined in 5 U.S.C. 5302(1)), as adjusted under 5 U.S.C. 5303, are set...
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Routine annual federal pay adjustment under existing statutes. Within presidential and congressional authority, infringes no rights, restricts no private conduct, and takes no property.
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✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
President acts under express statutory delegations (5 U.S.C. 5303, 5304a, 5382, 5372; 37 U.S.C. 1009) and Article II, Section 1 vesting of executive power plus Article II, Section 3 duty to take care that laws be executed. Congress authorized pay adjustments under Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 Necessary and Proper Clause in support of raising armies, navy, and federal departments. No extra-const… -
✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
No speech, religion, assembly, press, arms, search, trial, jury, or other Bill of Rights interest is implicated. Adjusts compensation for existing federal employees and officers. No restriction under First Amendment, Second Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Fifth Amendment self-incrimination, Sixth Amendment, Seventh Amendment, or Eighth Amendment. -
✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
Imposes no restriction on private person, property, speech, labor, or belief. Governs only compensation of federal officers and employees. No private conduct regulated and no justification burden triggered. -
✓ Passes · Decentralization
Paying federal personnel is inherently federal. Individuals, counties, and states cannot set General Schedule, military pay, or judicial salaries. Order does not transfer any state or local function upward; it administers existing federal workforce under Tenth Amendment. -
✓ Passes · Due process and takings
No deprivation of life, liberty, or property. No seizure, no criminal process, no taking under Fifth Amendment. Order prospectively sets pay rates with notice via Federal Register and stated effective dates, satisfying procedural due process under Fifth Amendment.
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