18 Department of Labor and Related Agencies

What happened

Aug 21, 2026 Partially done

OFCCP published three final rules the same day: the Executive Order 11246 regulations are rescinded (effective 2026-10-26), and the Section 503 and VEVRAA regulations are revised to drop their Executive Order 11246 cross-references (effective 2026-09-21). The office's contract-compliance mandate is gone, but the office is not — it issued these rules in its own name and remains the enforcer of Section 503 and VEVRAA, which are statutes the President cannot revoke.

• DOL/OFCCP final rule: Rescission of Executive Order 11246 Implementing Regulations, effective 2026-10-26

  Primary Executive branch Aug 21, 2026

• OFCCP final rule: Modifications to the Regulations Implementing Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, effective 2026-09-21

  Primary Executive branch Aug 21, 2026

• OFCCP final rule: Modifications to the Regulations Implementing the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, effective 2026-09-21

  Primary Executive branch Aug 21, 2026

What happened

Jul 24, 2026 Partially done

The sweep through the "other laws" continued: Commerce (2026-04-16) and Interior (2026-05-22) removed disparate impact from their Title VI regulations, the CFPB removed the effects test from Regulation B under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (2026-04-22), and HHS did the same for its Title VI regulations on this date. HUD's parallel Fair Housing Act rule was still only a proposal on 2026-08-10. Title VII itself is untouched: 42 U.S.C. 2000e-2(k) remains law and no bill to repeal it was found in the 119th Congress.

• HHS final rule: Rescinding Portions of the HHS Title VI Regulations To Align With the Statutory Text and Conform to Executive Order 14281

  Primary Executive branch Jul 24, 2026

• CFPB final rule: Equal Credit Opportunity Act (Regulation B) — removing disparate-impact liability

  Primary Executive branch Apr 22, 2026

• Commerce final rule: Rescinding Portions of Department of Commerce Title VI Regulations To Implement Executive Order 14281

  Primary Executive branch Apr 16, 2026

• Interior final rule: Rescinding Portions of Department of the Interior Title VI Regulations To Implement Executive Order 14281

  Primary Executive branch May 22, 2026

What happened

Jun 9, 2026 Partially done

This is the first executive act aimed at Title VII itself, the law the Quote names first. The Office of Legal Counsel issued an opinion to the EEOC that "its guidelines about disparate-impact liability under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act are unconstitutional", which the Justice Department says "helps to implement Executive Order 14281". By the release's account, the opinion holds that employers may use job-related practices such as aptitude tests, knowledge tests and criminal-background checks if the practice is "reasonable, useful, or helps serve a valid business purpose". A plaintiff must show that the specific practice caused the disparity and must identify an equally effective alternative. That narrows the theory under Title VII as the executive reads it. It does not eliminate it: 42 U.S.C. 2000e-2(k) is still law, and courts are not bound by an OLC opinion. The opinion itself (second citation) was read on 2026-10-01. It names the Uniform Guidelines, 29 CFR part 1607, as the guidelines it reaches.

• DOJ press release: Justice Department Concludes EEOC Disparate-Impact Guidelines Violate the Constitution

  Primary Executive branch Jun 9, 2026

• OLC, Constitutionality of Disparate-Impact Liability Under Title VII, 50 Op. O.L.C. __ (June 9, 2026), memorandum opinion for the Chair, EEOC

  Primary Executive branch Jun 9, 2026

What happened

Jan 8, 2026 Partially done

The Department of Labor rescinded, in its entirety and effective immediately, its 2022 interpretation of section 188 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act — the guidance that read "because of … sex" in DOL's workforce-program anti-discrimination rules to include transgender status and gender identity on the authority of *Bostock*. This is the Chapter 18 agency carrying out the direction on its own enforcement, the first such documented step found on an allowlisted source.

• DOL notice: Rescission of the 2022 Interpretation of Section 188 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (removing the Bostock-based reading of "sex")

  Primary Executive branch Jan 8, 2026

What happened

Dec 10, 2025 Partially done

DOJ's final rule struck the disparate-impact provisions from its own Title VI regulations (28 CFR 42.104), the regulations the President had already withdrawn approval from in section 3 of Executive Order 14281. Disparate impact is gone as a theory under Title VI as DOJ administers it — one of the Quote's "other laws".

• DOJ final rule: Rescinding Portions of Department of Justice Title VI Regulations To Conform More Closely With the Statutory Text and To Implement Executive Order 14281

  Primary Executive branch Dec 10, 2025