in effect
This is Executive Order 14267, signed April 9, 2025, titled “Reducing Anti-Competitive Regulatory Barriers.” It directs federal agencies to review the regulations they enforce, find ones that reduce competition, and recommend removing or changing them. It starts a review-and-recommendation process; it does not itself repeal any specific rule.
Agency heads must review all rules under their authority and flag those that create monopolies, block new competitors, limit competition, impose restrictive licensing or accreditation, burden procurement, or otherwise distort the free market. Within 70 days, each agency must send the Federal Trade Commission Chairman and the Attorney General a list of such rules, with a recommendation to rescind, modify, or (for rules that are anti-competitive by design and being kept) a justification. Within 10 days, the FTC Chairman must open a 40-day public request for information inviting people to name rules that fit these categories. Within 90 days of receiving the agency lists, the Chairman gives the Office of Management and Budget a consolidated list of rules to rescind or modify, and may add rules the agencies left off. OMB then decides whether to fold those changes into the government’s Unified Regulatory Agenda under the prior deregulation order (EO 14219).
The direct obligations fall on federal agencies with rulemaking authority, the FTC Chairman, the Attorney General, and OMB, who must carry out the reviews and lists on these deadlines. Businesses and the public can weigh in through the FTC’s public request for information. The order states it creates no legal rights anyone can enforce in court, and it applies only as consistent with existing law and available funding.