# Executive Order 14138

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Joe Biden's one hundred forty-fourth executive order, originally published on January 3, 2025 and published on January 13, 2025 in the Federal Register. Revokes: Executive Order 13615 (May 21, 2012). Revoked by: Executive Order 14148 (January 20, 2025).
Signed by President Joe Biden Friday, January 3, 2025
Federal Register page & date: 90 FR 2585, Monday, January 13, 2025
​Executive Order 14138 of January 3, 2025
Providing an Order of Succession Within the Office of Management and Budget
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 3345 et seq. (the ‘‘Act’’), it is hereby ordered that:
Section 1. Order of Succession. Subject to the provisions of section 2 of this order, and to the limitations set forth in the Act, the following officials of the Office of Management and Budget, in the order listed, shall act as and perform the functions and duties of the office of Director of the Office of Management and Budget (Director) during any period in which both the Director and the Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget have died, resigned, or otherwise become unable to perform the functions and duties of the office of Director:
(a) Deputy Director for Management;
(b) Executive Associate Director;
(c) Associate Director (National Security Programs);
(d) Associate Director (General Government Programs);
(e) Associate Director (Education, Income Maintenance, and Labor Programs);
(f) Associate Director (Health Programs);
(g) Associate Director (Climate, Energy, Environment, and Science Programs);
(h) General Counsel;
(i) Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy;
(j) Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs;
(k) Controller, Office of Federal Financial Management; and
(l) Administrator of the Office of Electronic Government.
Sec. 2. Exceptions. (a) No individual who is serving in an office listed in section 1(a)–(l) of this order in an acting capacity shall, by virtue of so serving, act as Director pursuant to this order.
(b) No individual who is serving in an office listed in section 1(a)–(l) of this order shall act as Director unless that individual is otherwise eligible to so serve under the Act.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of this order, the President retains discretion, to the extent permitted by law, to depart from this order in designating an acting Director.
Sec. 3. Revocation. Executive Order 13615 of May 21, 2012 (Providing an Order of Succession Within the Office of Management and Budget), is hereby revoked.
Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
THE WHITE HOUSE, January 3, 2025.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).
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