Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies · Major

Rescind Executive Order 11246

Done

584 18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies

“Rescind EO 11246. The President should eliminate OFCCP by simply rescinding EO 11246. Federal contractors would still be bound by statutory nondiscrimination law but would no longer work under overlapping regimes.”

What has happened

  1. Done

    Executive Order 14173, section 3(b)(i), revoked Executive Order 11246 outright ("Executive Order 11246 of September 24, 1965 (Equal Employment Opportunity), is hereby revoked"), allowing Federal contractors 90 days to keep complying with the existing regulatory scheme. The Department of Labor confirmed the revocation in the preamble to its 2026 rescission rule and finished removing the implementing regulations on 2026-08-21.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

  • The revocation itself was self-executing on 2025-01-21; the regulatory clean-up took nineteen months. DOL proposed rescinding the 41 CFR chapter 60 regulations on 2025-07-01 (docket OFCCP-2025-0001), extended the comment period on 2025-09-04, and published the final rescission on 2026-08-21 with an effective date of 2026-10-26. That sequence is tracked on #1598 (Eliminate OFCCP), which owns the office’s fate.
  • Litigation over Executive Order 14173 exists but targets the certification and termination provisions in section 3(b)(iv), not the revocation of Executive Order 11246, which no court can undo. The CourtListener dockets for National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education v. Trump (4th Cir., docketed 2025-02-27) and Chicago Women in Trades v. Trump (N.D. Ill., 2025-02-26) are recorded as leads — the docket pages refuse automated reads.
Action
rescind
Object
Executive Order 11246
ID
1599