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Donald Trump's executive orders on education, 2025

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Donald Trump's executive orders
(second term)
Recent executive orders:
Implementing the United States-Japan Agreement

Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again

Further Exclusions From the Federal Labor-Management Relations Program

Previous executive orders:

Executive orders by category:
First dayFirst 100 daysRevokes previous orderThe administrative stateEducationEnergy and the environmentForeign policyHealthImmigrationPolicing and criminal justiceTechnologyTrade and tariffs

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As of September 4, 2025, President Donald Trump (R) had signed 199 executive orders, 48 memoranda, and 83 proclamations in his second presidential term, which began on January 20, 2025. This page displays a list of executive orders President Donald Trump (R) issued during his second term in office related to education.

Executive orders are directives the president writes to officials within the executive branch requiring them to take or stop some action related to policy or management. They are numbered, published in the Federal Register, cite the authority by which the president is making the order, and the Office of Management and Budget issues budgetary impact analyses for each order.[1][2] Click here to read more about executive orders issued during Trump's second term.

Executive orders issued by Donald Trump related to education

Executive orders in the second term of the Trump administration

By category

Historical use of executive orders

Overview, 1789-2025

The following chart shows the number of executive orders and average executive orders per year issued by each president of the United States from 1789 to 2025.

Average number of executive orders issued each year by president, 1921-2025

The following chart visualizes the average number of executive orders issued each year between 1921 and 2025, as noted in the table in the section above. The number of executive orders issued declined during this time period with Presidents Barack Obama (D) and George W. Bush issuing the fewest on average at 35 and 36 each year, respectively.

Executive orders issued over time, 2001-2025

The chart below displays the number of executive orders issued over time by Biden, Trump, Obama, and Bush.


See also

Footnotes

  1. Cooper, Phillip. (2014). By Order of the President: The Use and Abuse of Executive Direct Action. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. (pgs. 21-22)
  2. USA Today, "Presidential memoranda vs. executive orders. What's the difference?" January 24, 2017