Executive Order Monthly Report - September
by KafkaEsquire
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.
EO 14343 - Further Exclusions From the Federal Labor-Management Relations Program
Signed: August 28, 2025
Published: September 3, 2025
This is a simple EO that adds the International Trade Administration, patent and Trademark Office, the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Services, the National Weather Service, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the United States Agency for Global Media to the list of agencies classified as intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or performing national security work. By doing so, these agencies now are subject to, or exempt from various statutes, policies, and, importantly, EOs. The EO points out that these agencies are now subject to EO 14251, which will prevent their employees from bargaining collectively. Additionally, these agencies will potentially now be more centralized under the White House, and their actions less subject to legislative and judicial scrutiny.
EO14344 - Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again
Signed: August 28, 2025
Published: September 3, 2025
This EO is a surprisingly simple and straightforward form of fascist praxis. It openly pines for the golden age of the founding when neo-classicalism was favored when designing and building government buildings. It explicitly rejects any Brutalist or Deconstructivist designs for government buildings, even giving the White House the ability to veto any such plans if they occurred. This EO is ultimately impactful in substance, but carries an important message to those who support the fascist ideals that undergird the current Administration.
EO 14345 - Implementing the United States–Japan Agreement
Signed: September 4, 2025
Published: September 9, 2025
This EO attempts to add at least one trade agreement to President Trump’s embarrassingly low record of trade deals during this term. It sets the Japanese tariff rate to 15% while showing very little other than deals that are “underway” and nonbinding “commitments to invest $50 billion in the US economy.” Japan likely will take little solace in this poorly drafted EO focused on trade, considering it is entirely at the whims of President Trump.
Signed: September 5, 2025
Published: September 10, 2025
This 156 page EO provides adjustments to the sweeping tariffs the Administration announced earlier this year. This EO is basing these adjustments on perceived retaliatory tariffs or other actions taken by tariffed countries. It also adds new products to the lists of tariffed items.
EO 14347 - Restoring the United States Department of War
Signed: September 5, 2025
Published: September 10, 2025
This EO let’s everyone know that the Administration has a fun little nickname for the Department of Defense and Pete Hegseth, “the Department of War” and the “Secretary of War”. Neither nickname is official, as such titles are dispensed by congress, not the Executive. As with many of the actions of this Administration, it is a facade attempting to portray strength and aggression to paint over the frail men within.
EO 14348 - Strengthening Efforts To Protect U.S. Nationals From Wrongful Detention Abroad
Signed: September 5, 2025
Published: September 10, 2025
This EO is somewhat straightforward, empowering the Secretary of State to take actions to discourage wrongful detention of American citizens. It’s not clear why this EO is necessary, as such powers already existed for the President and his cabinet.
Signed: September 16, 2025
Published: September 23, 2025
As we saw during the Biden Administration, the railroad companies and workers are often at odds, and such disputes have far reaching consequences. While the Biden admin did not allow a strike, they took all efforts they could to make sure the demands of the workers were fulfilled. Here it is likely that we will see the opposite, in which the government takes all steps to protect corporate interests.
EO 14350 - Further Extending the TikTok Enforcement Delay
Signed: September 16, 2025
Published: September 23, 2025
As many say, the third time is the charm. The TikTok ban has yet again been delayed to allow for it to be sold to an American. It might just be what is needed to finally push the tiktok deal past the finish line.
Signed: September 16, 2025
Published: September 23, 2025
This EO establishes a fast track program for aliens to gain permanent resident status via a gold card. An individual may pay $1 million or a company $2 million on behalf of an individual. The program is an attempt to attract and fast track wealthy individuals or vital employees. The program is a crystallization of this Administration’s interest in only helping the wealthy, and not caring about consistency in their immigration program.
EO 14352 - Saving TikTok While Protecting National Security
Signed: September 25, 2025
Published: September 30, 2025
This EO discusses the process of Divestment of TikTok to leave ByeDance at most 20% ownership of the app. It also revokes or rewrites various EOs to better facilitate this divestiture.
EO 14353 - Assuring the Security of the State of Qatar
Signed: September 29, 2025
Published: October 6, 2025
In essentially a single page, the Administration extends the full protection of the US military to Qatar. Any attack on Qatar is to be considered an attack on the US. This kind of military protection of another nation is usually accompanied by intense negotiation, litigation, and at the very least some kind of reciprocation or compensation. This all appears to be absent, and merely a short statement establishing Qatar as a client state of the US.
With a Qatari military base being built in Idaho and a $400 million Qatari jet in his pocket, this EO seems to be yet another questionable deal made between the small nation and Trump directly. Qatar appears to have shifted to become a leader in the development and management of the current US president’s ego to their own gain.
EO 14354 - Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees
Signed: September 29, 2025
Published: October 6, 2025
This EO continues a number of Federal Advisory Committees, avoiding the normal process established in previous EOs. It also delegates the authority in managing the facilities to relevant agency heads. It’s unclear why this EO was signed, or what long term effects it may have. If anything it appears to merely be a tidying of bureaucracy that the Administration does not wish to engage with.
EO 14355 - Unlocking Cures for Pediatric Cancer With Artificial Intelligence
Signed: September 30, 2025
Published: October 7, 2025
This EO desperately tries to distract from the fact that this Administration has been aggressively cutting funding for cancer research. It uses as many AI and tech related terms as it can to promise to help find a cure for pediatric cancer, while not actually committing any resources to the cause. This EO mimes and makes overtures to what is clearly an important issue, but ultimately only serves to assist in helping Trump’s image.
