President Trump Rescinds Dozens of Executive Orders on His First Day in Office

January 23, 2025

What's New

On his first day in office, President Trump issued an Executive Order (E.O.) rescinding more than 60 E.O.s issued by President Biden.

Two of the rescinded E.O.s regulated federal contractors:

E.O. 14055, which required successor contractors under the Service Contract Act (SCA) to offer jobs to a predecessor contractor’s employees; and
E.O. 14069, which directed contracting agencies to consider requiring contractors to post pay information on job advertisements and prohibit contractors from considering prior salary history.

The rescission of many of the other E.O.s will abruptly change federal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policy. Most of these E.O.s imposed requirements on federal agencies rather than on federal contractors, such as by requiring federal agencies to adopt agency equity plans.

What It Means

President Trump has ended successor contractors’ obligation to offer jobs to predecessor contractors’ employees. He also formally killed the federal contractor pay transparency rule (which the Biden Administration recently withdrew).

These rescissions are the first step in what we expect will be a significant reset of federal contractor obligations.

What You Should Do

CWC members can join online discussions about the Trump Administration’s early policy decisions at our upcoming virtual 2025 Workplace Policy Conference on March 5-6 or at one of our regular Conversation Corners.

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