EO 14173 Jan 21, 2025 TIER 2MID-LEVEL FREEZE

Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity

Theater score 36/100

Detector flags: restores a thing that arguably never left; ends a thing by announcing the end of it; exists partly to revoke a previous order.

Immediate Impact

Revokes the 1965 federal contractor affirmative action order and redirects contracting oversight toward merit.

The revoked order can be reissued by a successor with one signature, sixty years of precedent optional.