Providing an Order of Succession Within the Office of Management and Budget
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Executive Order
Executive Order 14138: Order of Succession Within the Office of Management and Budget
On January 3, 2025, an Executive Order was issued to establish a clear order of succession within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This order outlines the hierarchy of officials who will assume the role of Director in the event that both the Director and Deputy Director are unable to perform their duties. The order also revokes a previous Executive Order from 2012 and clarifies that the President retains discretion in appointing an acting Director.
- The Executive Order was issued on January 3, 2025, and published in the Federal Register on January 13, 2025.
- It establishes a succession plan for the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
- The order lists specific officials in a hierarchical order to assume the Director's role if both the Director and Deputy Director are unavailable.
- Officials listed include the Deputy Director for Management, Executive Associate Director, and various Associate Directors, among others.
- Individuals serving in an acting capacity in these roles are not eligible to act as Director.
- The President retains the discretion to appoint an acting Director outside of this order.
- Executive Order 13615 from May 21, 2012, is revoked by this new order.
- The order does not create any enforceable rights or benefits against the U.S. government.
Summary last updated: January 11, 2025
Original Text
Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 7 (Monday, January 13, 2025)
[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 7 (Monday, January 13, 2025)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-00619]
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Executive Order 14138 of January 3, 2025
Providing an Order of Succession Within the
Office of Management and Budget
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of
1998, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 3345 et seq. (the ``Act''),
it is hereby ordered that:
Section 1. Order of Succession. Subject to the
provisions of section 2 of this order, and to the
limitations set forth in the Act, the following
officials of the Office of Management and Budget, in
the order listed, shall act as and perform the
functions and duties of the office of Director of the
Office of Management and Budget (Director) during any
period in which both the Director and the Deputy
Director of the Office of Management and Budget have
died, resigned, or otherwise become unable to perform
the functions and duties of the office of Director:
(a) Deputy Director for Management;
(b) Executive Associate Director;
(c) Associate Director (National Security
Programs);
(d) Associate Director (General Government
Programs);
(e) Associate Director (Education, Income
Maintenance, and Labor Programs);
(f) Associate Director (Health Programs);
(g) Associate Director (Climate, Energy,
Environment, and Science Programs);
(h) General Counsel;
(i) Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy;
(j) Administrator of the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs;
(k) Controller, Office of Federal Financial
Management; and
(l) Administrator of the Office of Electronic
Government.
Sec. 2. Exceptions. (a) No individual who is serving in
an office listed in section 1(a)-(l) of this order in
an acting capacity shall, by virtue of so serving, act
as Director pursuant to this order.
(b) No individual who is serving in an office
listed in section 1(a)-(l) of this order shall act as
Director unless that individual is otherwise eligible
to so serve under the Act.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of this order,
the President retains discretion, to the extent
permitted by law, to depart from this order in
designating an acting Director.
Sec. 3. Revocation. Executive Order 13615 of May 21,
2012 (Providing an Order of Succession Within the
Office of Management and Budget), is hereby revoked.
Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
the head thereof; or
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(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 3, 2025.
[FR Doc. 2025-00619
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