Executive Order Monthly Report - October, 2025

This report is only a summary and editorial regarding the executive orders (“EOs”) signed by the Trump Administration during the last month. EOs are not legislation or court opinions. They do not carry the weight of law, and are merely statements of policy within the executive branch. That is not to say they cannot be cited in court or legal pleadings, or aren’t relevant to the application of law, only that they are almost never controlling outside of internal executive branch administration.

Unlike previous reports, I am going to be keeping these summaries shorter.  The goal will be to give you an easy access to the EO’s and a general understanding of what is contained within. Important or especially impactful EO’s will likely have a longer summary.

While I am a licensed attorney, this is not paid legal advice.  Nothing in this communication is intended to create an attorney-client relationship.  Unless expressly stated otherwise, nothing contained in this article should be construed as a digital or electronic signature, nor is it intended to reflect an intention to make an agreement by electronic means.

Executive Order 14356 - Ensuring Continued Accountability in Federal Hiring

In a surprising first, October only brought us a single EO. It starts by pointing out that the current administration has blown past its target of terminating 4 jobs in the US government for each new job created. Now this EO requires that each agency create a new Strategic Hiring Committee to ensure the conformity to this and previous hiring requirements set forth from this administration. It’s not clear how this will be different from the current hiring process in the US government, however one can make an easy assumption that this is aimed at only hiring those new employees that will be loyal solely to President Trump.