Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on December 24, 2025, and December 26, 2025

SI-generated grade · five published checks · not individually reviewed by a person · methodology

Routine Article II workforce-management order closing executive offices on December 24 and 26, 2025 with pay protections and national-security exceptions. It stays within presidential authority, infringes no rights, takes no property, and consolidates no new power.

• ✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
  The President acts under Article II, Section 1 vesting of executive power and Article II, Section 3 to take care that the laws be faithfully executed and to supervise the executive branch workforce. Directing office closures and excused absence for executive departments, implemented through the Office of Personnel Management and consistent with 5 U.S.C. 5546 and 6103, is within that authority and …
• ✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
  The order closes federal offices and excuses federal employees around Christmas Day, with exceptions for national security and public need. It does not restrict speech, religion, press, assembly under the First Amendment, does not implicate the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, or Eighth Amendments, and creates no rights restriction. No Bill of Rights provision is infringed.
• ✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
  The order restricts no private person, property, speech, labor, or belief. It directs only federal departments and federal employees, excuses duty with pay protections, and retains essential operations for defense and public need. No compelling-justification burden is triggered because no individual sovereignty is limited.
• ✓ Passes · Decentralization
  This is internal management of the federal workforce, the minimum necessary level. (1) Individuals cannot set federal office hours. (2) Local communities cannot manage federal personnel. (3) States cannot direct federal departments. (4) It does not consolidate new power upward; it exercises existing Article II supervision and preserves agency-head discretion under Section 2, consistent with the Te…
• ✓ Passes · Due process and takings
  Procedural due process under the Fifth Amendment is satisfied: the order gives advance public notice via the Federal Register, applies prospectively, preserves pay and leave under 5 U.S.C. 5546 and 6103(b) and EO 11582, and is subject to applicable law and appropriations. No property is taken without just compensation and no adjudication or presumption of innocence is bypassed. Section 5(c) expres…

Sources: Federal Register: Executive Order 14371