What it’s about:

This order seeks to deploy a “next-generation missile defense shield” to defend the U.S. against aerial attacks. The defense secretary must submit a plan for the shield within 60 days.

Timing:

Calls for a report within 60 days.

Focus:

National security

What it’s about:

This order states that the U.S. Armed Forces “should operate free from any preference based on race or sex.” It abolishes DEI offices and programs in the Defense Department and the Department of Homeland Security. It prohibits promotion of “divisive concepts,” including that “America’s founding documents are racist or sexist.”

Timing:

Guidance to departments is due in 30 days; an internal review of DEI efforts is due in 90 days; report on progress due in 180 days.

Focus:

National security

What it’s about:

This order contends that service members with “gender dysphoria” and those with “shifting pronoun usage or use of pronouns that inaccurately reflect an individual’s sex” are unfit to serve in the military.

Timing:

Report is due on how to implement the order within 30 days.

Focus:

National security

What it’s about:

This order permits the reinstatement of service members who were discharged for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine during the pandemic. Those service members would return to their former rank “and receive full back pay, benefits, bonus payments or compensation.”

Timing:

Effective immediately; report due in 60 days on progress.

Focus:

National security