Presidential Documents

9065 

Federal Register 

Vol. 90, No. 24 

Thursday, February 6, 2025 

Title 3— 

The President 

Executive Order 14192 of January 31, 2025 

Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation 

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the 

laws of the United States of America, including the Budget and Accounting 

Act of 1921, as amended (31 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.), and in order to promote 

prudent financial management and alleviate unnecessary regulatory burdens, 

it is hereby ordered: 

Section 1. Purpose. The ever-expanding morass of complicated Federal regulation imposes massive costs on the lives of millions of Americans, creates 

a substantial restraint on our economic growth and ability to build and 

innovate, and hampers our global competitiveness. Despite the magnitude 

of their impact, these measures are often difficult for the average person 

or business to understand, as they require synthesizing the collective meaning 

not just of formal regulations but also rules, memoranda, administrative 

orders, guidance documents, policy statements, and interagency agreements 

that are not subject to the Administrative Procedure Act, further increasing 

compliance costs and the risk of costs of non-compliance. It is the policy 

of my Administration to significantly reduce the private expenditures required to comply with Federal regulations to secure America’s economic 

prosperity and national security and the highest possible quality of life 

for each citizen. To that end, it is important that for each new regulation 

issued, at least 10 prior regulations be identified for elimination. This practice 

is to ensure that the cost of planned regulations is responsibly managed 

and controlled through a rigorous regulatory budgeting process. 

Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the executive branch to be prudent and 

financially responsible in the expenditure of funds, from both public and 

private sources, and to alleviate unnecessary regulatory burdens placed on 

the American people. 

Sec. 3. Regulatory Cap for Fiscal Year 2025. (a) Unless prohibited by law, 

whenever an executive department or agency (agency) publicly proposes 

for notice and comment or otherwise promulgates a new regulation, it shall 

identify at least 10 existing regulations to be repealed. 

(b) For fiscal year 2025, which is in progress, the heads of all agencies 

are directed to ensure that the total incremental cost of all new regulations, 

including repealed regulations, being finalized this year, shall be significantly 

less than zero, as determined by the Director of the Office of Management 

and Budget (Director), unless otherwise required by law or instructions 

from the Director. 

(c) In furtherance of the requirement of subsection (a) of this section, 

any new incremental costs associated with new regulations shall, to the 

extent permitted by law, be offset by the elimination of existing costs associated with at least 10 prior regulations. 

(d) The Director shall provide the heads of agencies with guidance on 

the implementation of this section. Such guidance shall address, among 

other things, processes for standardizing the measurement and estimation 

of regulatory costs; standards for determining what qualifies as new and 

offsetting regulations; standards for determining the costs of existing regulations that are considered for elimination; processes for accounting for costs 

in different fiscal years; methods to oversee the issuance of rules with 

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and other circumstances that might justify individual waivers of the requirements of this section. The Director shall consider phasing in and updating 

these requirements. 

Sec. 4. Annual Regulatory Cost Submissions to the Office of Management 

and Budget. Beginning with the Regulatory Plans, as required under Executive 

Order 12866 of September 30, 1993 (Regulatory Planning and Review), as 

amended, or any successor order for fiscal year 2026, and for each fiscal 

year thereafter: 

(a) The head of each agency shall identify on an aggregated basis, for 

regulations that increase incremental cost, the offsetting regulations described 

in section 3(c) of this order, and provide the agency’s best approximation 

of the total costs or savings associated with each new regulation or repealed 

regulation. 

(b) Each regulation approved by the Director during the Presidential budget 

process shall be included in the Unified Regulatory Agenda required under 

Executive Order 12866, as amended, or any successor order. Unless otherwise 

required by law, no regulation shall be added to or removed from the 

Unified Regulatory Agenda without the approval of the Director. To accomplish the purposes of this order, the Director may also require additions 

to the Unified Regulatory Agenda and Regulatory Plan. 

(c) Unless otherwise required by law, no regulation shall be issued by 

an agency if it was not included in the most recent version or update 

of the published Unified Regulatory Agenda as required under Executive 

Order 12866, as amended, or any successor order, unless the issuance of 

such regulation was approved in advance in writing by the Director. 

(d) During the Presidential budget process, the Director shall identify 

to agencies a total amount of incremental costs that will be allowed for 

each agency in issuing new regulations and repealing regulations for each 

fiscal year after fiscal year 2025. No regulations exceeding the agency’s 

total incremental cost allowance will be permitted in that fiscal year, unless 

required by law or approved in writing by the Director. The total incremental 

cost allowance may allow an increase or require a reduction in total regulatory 

cost. 

(e) The Director shall provide the heads of agencies with guidance on 

the implementation of the requirements in this section. 

Sec. 5. Definition. For purposes of this order, the term ‘‘regulation’’ or 

‘‘rule’’ means an agency statement of general or particular applicability 

and future effect designed to implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy 

or to describe the procedure or practice requirements of an agency, including, 

without limitation, regulations, rules, memoranda, administrative orders, 

guidance documents, policy statements, and interagency agreements, regardless of whether the same were enacted through the processes in the Administrative Procedure Act, but does not include: 

(a) regulations issued with respect to a military, national security, homeland security, foreign affairs, or immigration-related function of the United 

States; 

(b) regulations related to agency organization, management, or personnel; 

or 

(c) any other specific regulation or category of regulations exempted by 

the Director, who shall exempt those regulations or categories of regulations 

that impose minimal costs or burdens on the private sector or that are 

requested to be exempted by the Assistant to the President and Chief of 

Staff or the Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy. 

Sec. 6. Implementation. (a) The Director is charged with implementing this 

order, including by providing agencies with updated guidance on implementing the ten-for-one rule described in section 3(a) of this order, including 

processes for identifying regulations for elimination, determining what constitutes, generally and specifically, a ‘‘rule’’ or ‘‘regulation’’ for purposes 

of this order, estimating and standardizing regulatory costs, and ensuring 


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compliance with the Administrative Procedure Act and other applicable 

laws. 

(b) The Director shall revoke OMB Circular No. A–4 of November 9, 

2023 (Regulatory Analysis), and all accompanying appendices, guidelines, 

and documents, and shall reinstate the prior version of Circular A–4, issued 

on September 17, 2003; and 

(c) The Secretary of the Treasury and the Director shall reinstate the 

Memorandum of Agreement between the Department of the Treasury and 

the Office of Management and Budget of April 11, 2018, regarding review 

of tax regulations under Executive Order 12866. 

Sec. 7. Severability. If any provision of this order, or the application of 

any provision to any person or circumstance, is held to be invalid, the 

remainder of this order and the application of its provisions to any other 

persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby. 

Sec. 8. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed 

to impair or otherwise affect: 

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or 

the head thereof; or 

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 

relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals. 

(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 31, 2025. 

[FR Doc. 2025–02345 

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