Presidential Actions

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2025/01/20 - Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Wind Leasing and Review of the Federal Government’s Leasing and Permitting Practices for Wind Projects

2025/01/20 - Flying The Flag Of The United States At Full-Staff On Inauguration Day

2025/01/20 - Protecting The American People Against Invasion

2025/01/20 - Withdrawing The United States From The World Health Organization

2025/01/20 - Granting Pardons And Commutation Of Sentences For Certain Offenses Relating To The Events At Or Near The United States Capitol On January 6, 2021

2025/01/20 - President Trump Announces Sub-Cabinet Appointments

2025/01/20 - President Trump’s America First Priorities

2025/01/20 - Establishing And Implementing The President’s “Department Of Government Efficiency”

2025/01/20 - Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture

2025/01/20 - Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential

2025/01/20 - Guaranteeing The States Protection Against Invasion

2025/01/20 - Protecting The Meaning And Value Of American Citizenship

2025/01/20 - Unleashing American Energy

2025/01/20 - America First Policy Directive To The Secretary Of State

2025/01/20 - Hiring Freeze

2025/01/20 - Restoring Accountability To Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce

2025/01/20 - Application Of Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act To TikTok

2025/01/20 - Memorandum to Resolve the Backlog of Security Clearances for Executive Office of the President Personnel

2025/01/20 - Reforming The Federal Hiring Process And Restoring Merit To Government Service

2025/01/20 - The Inaugural Address

2026/01/20 - Congressional Bill H.R. 224, H.R. 1823, H.R. 4446 Signed into Law

2026/01/16 - Minnesota’s “Sanctuary” Defiance Has Consequences

2026/01/16 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Celebrates the Great, Historic Investment in Rural Health

2026/01/16 - Religious Freedom Day, 2026

2026/01/16 - Statement on President Trump’s Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict

2026/01/15 - President Trump Unveils The Great Healthcare Plan to Lower Costs and Deliver Money Directly to the People

2026/01/14 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Directs Negotiations to Adjust Imports of Processed Critical Minerals and Their Derivative Products into the United States

2026/01/14 - ICYMI: “The Trump Administration Is Moving To Fix a Broken Permitting System”

2026/01/14 - Congressional Bill S. 222 Signed into Law

2026/01/14 - As President Trump Tackles Housing Affordability, Progress Emerges — and More Relief Is on the Horizon

2026/01/13 - Nominations Sent to the Senate

2026/01/09 - Safeguarding Venezuelan Oil Revenue for the Good of the American and Venezuelan People

2026/01/09 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Safeguards Venezuelan Oil Revenue for the Good of the American and Venezuelan People

2026/01/08 - Walz Is Wrong: President Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Saving Lives

2026/01/08 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Establishes New Department of Justice Division for National Fraud Enforcement

2026/01/06 - Sara Carter Confirmed As Drug Czar

2026/01/05 - Democrats Once Demanded Maduro’s Ouster. Now They Mourn His Capture — Because Trump Did It.

2026/01/02 - Trump Administration’s Historic Rural Health Care Investments Hailed Nationwide

2025/12/31 - America 250: Presidential Message on the Birthday of General George C. Marshall, Jr.

2025/12/31 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Adjusts Imports of Timber, Lumber, and Their Derivative Products into the United States

2026/01/20 - National Day of Patriotic Devotion, 2026

2026/01/15 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Calls on Congress to Enact The Great Healthcare Plan

2026/01/14 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Takes Action on Certain Advanced Computing Chips to Protect America’s Economic and National Security

2026/01/14 - Establishing a Second Emergency Board to Investigate Disputes Between the Long Island Rail Road Company and Certain of its Employees Represented by Certain Labor Organizations

2026/01/14 - Mass Deportations Are Improving Americans’ Quality of Life

2026/01/06 - Presidential Message on National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month

2026/01/04 - RUBIO: This Is Our Hemisphere — and President Trump Will Not Allow Our Security to be Threatened

2026/01/02 - Here’s What the Trump Administration Is Doing to Crush Minnesota’s Fraud Epidemic

2025/12/31 - Amendments to Adjusting Imports of Timber, Lumber, and their Derivative Products into the United States

2025/12/29 - To Implement the United States-Israel Agreement on Trade in Agricultural Products and for Other Purposes

2025/12/19 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Announces Largest Developments to Date in Bringing Most-Favored-Nation Pricing to American Patients

2025/12/18 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump is Increasing Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research

2025/12/18 - President Trump Highlights America’s Historic Comeback in Year-End Address

2025/12/18 - Statement by the President

2025/12/18 - INCREASING MEDICAL MARIJUANA AND CANNABIDIOL RESEARCH

2025/12/11 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Ensures a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence

2025/12/05 - National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, 2025

2025/12/05 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Begins Process to Align U.S. Core Childhood Vaccine Recommendations with Best Practices from Peer, Developed Countries

2025/12/02 - Congressional Bills H.J. Res 133 and H.R. 1512 Signed into Law

2025/12/01 - Yes, “There’s Something Wrong with Walz” — and it Cost Taxpayers $1 Billion

2026/01/14 - Adjusting Imports of Processed Critical Minerals and Their Derivative Products into the United States

2026/01/07 - Prioritizing the Warfighter in Defense Contracting

2026/01/02 - Regarding the Acquisition of Certain Assets of Emcore Corporation by Hiefo Corporation

2025/12/19 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Takes Action to Win the 6G Race

2025/12/18 - Providing for the Closure of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on December 24, 2025, and December 26, 2025

2025/12/18 - Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

2025/12/15 - DESIGNATING FENTANYL AS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION

2025/12/11 - Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence

2025/11/24 - Designation of Certain Muslim Brotherhood Chapters as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists

2025/11/24 - Launching the Genesis Mission

2025/11/04 - Modifying Duties Addressing the Synthetic Opioid Supply Chain in the People’s Republic of China

2025/10/27 - United States – Japan Framework for Securing the Supply of Critical Minerals and Rare Earths through Mining and Processing

2025/10/26 - Memorandum of Understanding Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Malaysia Concerning Cooperation to Diversify Global Critical Minerals Supply Chains and Promote Investments

2025/10/26 - Joint Statement on United States-Malaysia Agreement on Reciprocal Trade

2025/10/17 - Adjusting Imports Of Medium- And Heavy-Duty Vehicles, Medium- And Heavy-Duty Vehicle Parts, And Buses Into The United States

2025/10/16 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Announces Actions to Lower Costs and Expand Access to In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) and High-Quality Fertility Care

2025/10/15 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Ensures Continued Accountability in Federal Hiring

2025/10/15 - Ensuring Continued Accountability in Federal Hiring

2025/10/07 - Fire Prevention Week, 2025

2025/09/29 - Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees

2025/07/31 - Further Modifying the Reciprocal Tariff Rates

2025/07/30 - Addressing Threats to The United States by the Government of Brazil

2025/07/24 - Saving College Sports

2025/07/23 - White House Unveils America’s AI Action Plan

2025/07/23 - Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure

2025/07/23 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Secures Unprecedented U.S.–Japan Strategic Trade and Investment Agreement

2025/07/21 - ✅ President Trump Has Kept His Promises — and Then Some

2025/07/10 - Taxpayer-Funded Benefits Are for American Citizens — Not Illegals

2025/07/07 - Ensuring Accountability and Prioritizing Public Safety in Federal Hiring

2025/07/01 - WHAT THEY ARE SAYING: Senate Approves Landmark One Big Beautiful Bill

2025/06/30 - National Security Presidential Memorandum/NSPM-5

2025/06/16 - Capitol Hill Touts Benefits of the One Big Beautiful Bill

2025/06/06 - Leading The World in Supersonic Flight

2025/06/06 - Unleashing American Drone Dominance

2025/06/06 - Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Amending Executive Order 13694 and Executive Order 14144

2025/06/04 - Restricting The Entry of Foreign Nationals to Protect the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats

2025/06/04 - Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restricts the Entry of Foreign Nationals to Protect the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats

2025/06/03 - Adjusting Imports of Aluminum and Steel into the United States

2025/05/30 - Sequestration Order for Fiscal Year 2026 Pursuant to Section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, As Amended

2025/05/30 - Trump Administration Launches Permitting Technology Action Plan

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)