2025 Executive Orders to Watch in 2026
The first year of President Donald Trump’s second term proved to be a busy one. The White House issued Executive Orders on a wide range of topics, including employment, energy and natural resources, government contracting, federal regulatory oversight, and artificial intelligence. A number of these Executive Orders were challenged in court. Some of those challenges remain active, but others have been at least partially resolved. Now that the flurry of Executive Orders has slowed somewhat, business leaders can get a better sense of how to comply with this new federal guidance. The following are six areas in which the Trump Administration focused its attention in 2025---and that companies can expect to remain priorities in 2026: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion —One of the Trump Administration’s first executive orders , issued in January 2025, sought to end what the Administration calls “illegal” diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) and diversity, equity, inclusion, and access...