Presidential Actions

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2026/09/18 - Presidential Message on the 79th Birthday of the United States Air Force

2026/09/18 - Congressional Bill H.R. 5334 Signed into Law

2026/09/18 - Enhancing Program Integrity and Integrity and Interagency Coordination in the Administration of the H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Program

2026/09/18 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Announces Lower Drug Prices for All 50 State Medicaid Programs

2026/09/18 - President Trump Extends Most Favored Nation Drug Pricing to Every Medicaid Program in America

2026/09/18 - WHAT THEY ARE SAYING: President Trump Delivers Historic Victories for America’s Hunters, Anglers, and Outdoorsmen

2026/09/18 - Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers

2026/09/18 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Further Enhances Program Integrity and Interagency Coordination in the H-1B Visa Program

2026/09/17 - Withdrawals Sent to the Senate

2026/09/17 - Presidential Message on National Hispanic Heritage Month

2026/09/17 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Reinvigorates America’s Hunting Heritage

2026/09/17 - Reinvigorating America’s Hunting Heritage

2026/09/17 - RESTORING AMERICAN SALTWATER ANGLING AND RECREATION

2026/09/17 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores American Saltwater Angling and Recreation

2026/09/17 - President Trump’s Top 250 Victories For People of Faith

2026/09/16 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Provides Meaningful Water Quality Improvements Through Collaboration and Oversight of Federal Support

2026/09/16 - Constitution Day, Citizenship Day, and Constitution Week, 2026

2026/09/16 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores Reciprocity in Government Procurement

2026/09/16 - Congressional Bills S. 32 and S. 307 Signed into Law

2026/09/16 - Safer, Stronger, Built in America: President Trump’s Record in North Carolina

2025/02/10 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores American Competitiveness and Security in FCPA Enforcement

2025/02/10 - Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement to Further American Economic and National Security

2025/02/10 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Ends the Procurement and Forced Use of Paper Straws

2025/02/10 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Eliminates the Federal Executive Institute

2025/02/07 - Addressing Egregious Actions of The Republic of South Africa

2025/02/07 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Establishes White House Faith Office

2025/02/07 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Addresses Human Rights Violations in South Africa

2025/02/07 - President Trump Announces Appointments to the White House Faith Office

2025/02/06 - Remarks by President Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast

2025/02/05 - Amendment to Duties Addressing the Synthetic Opioid Supply Chain in the People’s Republic of China

2025/02/04 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores Maximum Pressure on Iran

2025/02/03 - President Trump is Delivering on His Commitment to Protect our Kids

2025/02/03 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Orders Plan for a United States Sovereign Wealth Fund

2025/02/03 - Career and Technical Education Month, 2025

2025/02/03 - At USAID, Waste and Abuse Runs Deep

2025/01/31 - National Black History Month, 2025

2025/01/31 - Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation

2025/01/29 - Expanding Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to Full Capacity

2025/01/29 - President Donald J. Trump Signed S.5 into Law

2025/01/27 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Reinstates Service Members Discharged for Refusing the COVID Vaccine

2026/09/26 - Presidential Message on National Hunting and Fishing Day

2026/09/25 - Congressional Bills H.R. 3657, H.R. 7250, S. 550, S. 603, S. 759 and S. 790 Signed into Law

2026/09/25 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Advances a Fair and Reciprocal Relationship with China While Hosting Historic State Visit

2026/09/23 - President Trump Delivers Powerful America First Message to the United Nations

2026/09/22 - AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF DENMARK TOGETHER WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF GREENLAND

2026/09/21 - G20 Energy Abundance Ministerial Concludes with Four Consensus Outcomes

2026/09/21 - First Lady Melania Trump Releases Details Ahead of His Excellency Xi Jinping, President of The People’s Republic of China, and Madame Peng Liyuan’s Visit to The White House

2026/09/18 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Announces Lower Drug Prices for All 50 State Medicaid Programs

2026/09/18 - President Trump Extends Most Favored Nation Drug Pricing to Every Medicaid Program in America

2026/09/17 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Reinvigorates America’s Hunting Heritage

2026/09/17 - Reinvigorating America’s Hunting Heritage

2026/09/17 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores American Saltwater Angling and Recreation

2026/09/16 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Provides Meaningful Water Quality Improvements Through Collaboration and Oversight of Federal Support

2026/09/16 - Constitution Day, Citizenship Day, and Constitution Week, 2026

2026/09/16 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores Reciprocity in Government Procurement

2026/09/16 - Restoring Reciprocity in Government Procurement

2026/09/16 - Providing Meaningful Water Quality Improvements Through Collaboration and Oversight of Federal Support

2026/09/15 - President Trump Promised to Make Memphis Safe Again. One Year Later, the Numbers Prove It.

2026/09/10 - Trump Dividend: America Is Winning — and Americans Should Win With It

2026/09/08 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Accelerates Veterans’ Access to Benefits and Employment Opportunities

2025/09/08 - President Trump’s Top 100 Victories for People of Faith

2025/09/05 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Modifies the Scope of Reciprocal Tariffs and Establishes Procedures for Implementing Trade Deals

2025/08/28 - Further Exclusions from the Federal Labor-Management Relations Program

2025/08/25 - Additional Measures to Address the Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia

2025/08/15 - The Office of Federal Procurement Policy Launches Landmark Update to FAR, Ushering in a New Era for Commercial Buying

2025/08/13 - Ensuring American Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Resilience by Filling the Strategic Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Reserve

2025/08/13 - Enabling Competition in the Commercial Space Industry

2025/08/12 - Letter to the Smithsonian: Internal Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions and Materials

2025/08/11 - Declaring a Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia

2025/08/11 - It’s “Liberation Day” in Washington, D.C.

2025/08/06 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Addresses Threats to the United States by the Government of the Russian Federation

2025/07/30 - Adjusting Imports of Copper into the United States

2025/07/30 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Takes Action to Address the Threat to National Security from Imports of Copper

2025/07/30 - Suspending Duty-Free De Minimis Treatment for All Countries

2025/07/25 - Captive Nations Week, 2025

2025/07/23 - Promoting The Export of the American AI Technology Stack

2025/07/23 - Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government

2025/07/07 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Ends Market Distorting Subsidies for Unreliable, Foreign-Controlled Energy Sources

2025/07/07 - Extending the Modification of the Reciprocal Tariff Rates

2025/07/07 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Ensures Accountability and Prioritizes Public Safety in Federal Hiring

2026/09/18 - Enhancing Program Integrity and Integrity and Interagency Coordination in the Administration of the H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Program

2026/09/18 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Further Enhances Program Integrity and Interagency Coordination in the H-1B Visa Program

2026/09/17 - RESTORING AMERICAN SALTWATER ANGLING AND RECREATION

2026/09/08 - Excluding Certain Canadian Products from Importation into the United States in Response to Continued Discrimination Against the Commerce of the United States with Respect to Dairy

2026/09/08 - Modifying the Scope of Products of Canada Subject to the Additional Duties Imposed to Offset Canadian Discrimination Against the United States with Respect to Motor Vehicles

2026/08/26 - Trump Delivers: 14 Recent Wins You May Have Missed

2026/08/24 - Operation Economic Outcast: Total Isolation of the Iranian Regime

2026/08/20 - The National Space Transportation Policy

2026/08/18 - Temporary Suspension of Additional Duties to Offset Canadian Discrimination Against the Commerce of the United States with Respect to Alcoholic Beverages, Dairy, and Motor Vehicles

2026/08/12 - Expanding Capabilities to Combat Transnational Cyber-Enabled Crime

2026/08/06 - Continuing to Protect the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship

2026/08/03 - Establishing the President’s Military Spouse Commission

2026/07/20 - Imposing Additional Duties to Offset Canadian Discrimination Against the Commerce of the United States with Respect to Motor Vehicles

2026/06/30 - Trump Administration NEPA Reforms: A Win for All Americans

2026/06/26 - President Trump’s America First Agenda Scores Major Supreme Court Win on TPS Termination

2026/06/22 - Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks

2026/06/22 - Ushering in the Next Frontier of Quantum Innovation

2026/06/12 - National Security Presidential Memorandum/NSPM-12

2026/06/09 - The Secure America Act Ends Democrat Obstruction— Fully Funds CBP, ICE and President Trump’s Border Security Agenda

2026/06/03 - Implementing Schedule Policy/Career in the Excepted Service

Analysis Category Scoring

  • Each analysis category is scored by the tool according to the criteria in the Granular Risk Assessment below.
  • The Granular scores are then averaged to create the Average Relevance Score.
  • Presidential Actions are updated on a near-daily basis as new actions are released.

Average Relevance Score

Relevance Score Risk Level  Definition
1.0-1.9 Low Minimal impact; no immediate action required.
2.0-2.9 Low- Med Some relevance, but limited impact on operations.
3.0-3.4 Medium Requires monitoring and possible intervention.
3.5-3.9 High- Med Significant impact; proactive response recommended.
4.0-4.4 High Major impact; immediate action required.
4.5-5.0 Critical  Urgent response is needed; high-level intervention is required.

Granular Risk Assessment

Factor Low (1)  Low- Med (2)  Medium (3)  High- Med (4)  High (5)
Federal Organizations Impacted 1-2 Agencies  3-5 agencies  6-10 Agencies 11-15 Agencies 16+ agencies or Gov-wide 
Federal Officials Responsible Low-level staff Mid-Level Management  Directors or Deputies Agency Heads White House or Cabinet Officials 
Impact to Vanderbilt University No impact Minor considerations Moderate risks (compliance, ethics) High risks (security, bias) Critical risks (legal/regulatory/financial)
Key Actions for Vanderbilt University No actions required Minor process updates Some adjustments needed Major Process changes Urgent systemic changes
Time Sensitivity of Actions Due (Based on Action Date) 180+ days to comply  90-179 days 60-89 days 30-59 days <30 days (urgent response)