More details: On March 13, 2020, President Donald Trump declared that he would give the states and territories access to up to 50 billion dollars in federal funds to fight the coronavirus pandemic. This includes the ability to waive laws to enable tele-health. Stated by President Trump: "It gives remote doctor's visits and hospital check ins. The power to waive certain federal license requirements so the doctors from other states can provide services in states with the greatest need."
Blocking Property of Certain Persons Associated with the International Criminal Court
More details: Freezes property of persons directly engaged in, or materially supporting, any effort by the ICC to investigate, arrest, detain or prosecute US or US-allied personnel in connection with the War in Afghanistan; bars entry into the US by such directly engaged persons and their immediate families
Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain
More details: bans American companies from using any telecommunications equipment that the secretary of Commerce declares to be a national security risk. Soon after the executive order was signed, the Bureau of Industry and Security of the Department of Commerce announced that it will be adding Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd and 70 affiliates to its Entity List. The Department of Commerce alleged that Huawei was engaged in activities that are contrary to US national security or foreign policy interest. As a result, sale or transfer of American technology to a company or person on the Entity List requires a license issued by the BIS, and a license may be denied if the sale or transfer would harm US national security or foreign policy interests.
Declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Southern Border of the United States
More details: seeks to divert $8 billion of funds, which were previously allocated to other programs, to build a wall on the southern border of the United States, which the order calls a "major entry point for criminals, gang members, and illicit narcotics" into the United States. This emergency declaration is the first since the passage of the National Emergencies Act in which the president sought to take funds for which Congress previously denied appropriation, and the first time both houses of Congress passed a resolution declaring the emergency terminated, sending it to the president for his signature.
Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election
More details: intended to enable automatic sanctions in response to election interference; intelligence agencies are given 45 days after an election to assess any possible interference
Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Nicaragua
More details: imposed sanctions due to the Rohingya conflict in Myanmar, specifically against general Maung Maung Soe; works in tandem with the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act
Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Burundi
More details: imposed sanctions on four Burundi nationals— minister of public security Alain Guillaume Bunyoni, National Police of Burundi deputy director-general Godefroid Bizimana, Godefroid Niyombare, and Cyrille Ndayirukiye—in the wake of widespread unrest
Blocking Property and Suspending Entry of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Venezuela
More details: imposed sanctions on seven high-ranking Venezuelan government officials, including SEBIN director Gustavo Enrique González López, PNB director Manuel Perez, and CVG head Justo Noguero
Blocking the Property of Certain Persons Engaging in Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities
More details: intended to allow sanctions to be levied on foreign individuals determined by the Department of the Treasury to have engaged in cyber-crime or cyber-terrorism; was in the works for two years.
Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Conflict in the Central African Republic
More details: imposed sanctions against former Central African Republic president François Bozizé, following similar sanctions placed on Bozizé by the United Nations Security Council the previous week; also contains provisions against the use of child soldiers
Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine
More details: imposed sanctions, including restricting visas, in concert with the European Union and the international community against Russia after its Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. Amended on March 16, 2014 (Executive Order 13662), and December 19, 2014 (Executive Order 13685) to expand the scope of sanctions.
Blocking Property of Certain Persons With Respect to South Sudan
More details: levied sanctions against four criminal organizations— Los Zetas, the Brothers' Circle, the Yakuza, and the Camorra—including freezing assets, barring ownership of American real estate, and implementing travel bans
Blocking Property and Prohibiting Certain Transactions Related to Libya
More details: imposed sanctions on Muammar Gaddafi, his family, and Libyan officials after protestors were killed by government forces, including freezing assets and consideration of prosecution for war crimes
Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Conflict in Somalia
More details: empowered the secretary of Health and Human Services to issue waivers allowing overcrowded hospitals to move swine flu patients to satellite facilities or other hospitals. Months before this national emergency was declared, on April 26, 2009 Obama's acting director of Health and Human Services declared H1N1 a public health emergency. Later on October 24, 2009, a second declaration was made by Obama to temporarily waive or modify certain requirements of the Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children's Health Insurance programs and of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Rule.
Continuing Certain Restrictions With Respect to North Korea and North Korean Nationals
More details: retained "certain restrictions" on North Korea as the United States removed North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism and as North Korea publicly declared its nuclear program
Blocking Property of Persons Undermining the Sovereignty of Lebanon or Its Democratic Processes and Institutions
More details: imposed sanctions intended as a warning to Syria and Hezbollah, months after a similar travel ban, during widespread unrest in the country, and out of concern over rifts between prime minister Fouad Siniora and president Émile Lahoud
Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
More details: imposed economic sanctions on DRC government officials amidst widespread violence taking place during runoffs for Congo's first free election in decades
Blocking Property of Certain Persons Undermining Democratic Processes or Institutions in Belarus
More details: imposed sanctions, including a travel ban, on Alexander Lukashenko after Belarus’s crackdown on peaceful protests against the recent presidential election and following similar sanctions by the European Union
Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Conflict in Côte d'Ivoire
More details: imposed mostly symbolic economic sanctions on Syria, grounding all flights between the two countries, banning all exports to Syria but food and medicine, and freezing some Syrians' assets
Blocking Property of Certain Persons and Prohibiting the Importation of Certain Goods from Liberia
More details: granted the Development Fund for Iraq, established the same day, legal protection in the wake of the invasion of Iraq and amidst the Iraq War
Blocking Property of Persons Undermining Democratic Processes or Institutions in Zimbabwe
More details: imposed economic sanctions on Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe and 76 other government officials following years of rigged elections and a recent food shortage, echoing similar sanctions imposed the previous year by the European Union. Amended on November 22, 2005 (Executive Order 13391) to revise the EO's annex listing the individuals targeted with sanctions.
Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten To Commit, or Support Terrorism
More details: the second of two national emergencies declared following the September 11 attacks, allowing the State and Treasury departments (through the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control) to designate entities as terrorists and apply economic sanctions. Due to the order's broad language, its scope has grown over the years to become one of the Treasury's "cornerstone sanctions programs" in fighting terrorism worldwide. Amended on July 2, 2002 (Executive Order 13268) to include the Taliban, and on January 23, 2003 (Executive Order 13284) to integrate the newly-created position of Secretary of Homeland Security into the order's process.
Declaration of National Emergency by Reason of Certain Terrorist Attacks
More details: the first of two national emergencies declared following the September 11 attacks, allowing the president to call troops from the National Guard or from retirement, to apportion military funding, to exercise more discretion over hiring military officers, and to promote more generals than previously allowed.
Blocking Property of Persons Who Threaten International Stabilization Efforts in the Western Balkans
More details: intended to combat extremist Albanian insurgents operating in North Macedonia and limit obstruction of the Dayton Accords. Amended on May 28, 2003 (Executive Order 13304) following the Ohrid Agreement, signed in 2001
Prohibiting the Importation of Rough Diamonds From Sierra Leone
More details: reasserted presidential control of exports of "defense articles" following the expiration of the Export Administration Act of 1979 in 1994. Amended on March 8, 2013 (Executive Order 13637) to delegate authority provided by Section 38 of the Arms Export Control Act from the president to the Secretary of State
Blocking Property of the Government of the Russian Federation Relating to the Disposition of Highly Enriched Uranium Extracted From Nuclear Weapons
Blocking Property of the Governments of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), the Republic of Serbia, and the Republic of Montenegro, and Prohibiting New Investment in the Republic of Serbia in Response to the Situation in Kosovo
More details: followed the 1991 Haitian coup d'état against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Re-declared by Clinton on May 7, 1994 (Executive Order 12914)
More details: followed the signing with the U.S.S.R. of the 1990 Chemical Weapons Accord, and preceded the May 1991 commitment by George H.W. Bush to destroy weapon agents, systems, and production facilities of the United States chemical weapons program
Blocking Iraqi Government Property and Prohibiting Transactions with Iraq
More details: The United States embargo against Nicaragua, followed the victory by Sandinista in the 1984 Nicaraguan general election over the U.S.-backed Contras
More details: imposed import controls in response to the Nixon shock. The last of four emergencies cited by Senate Report 93-549 as never having been terminated
More details: declaration in response to the 1970 United States Postal Service strike. The third of four emergencies cited by Senate Report 93-549 as never having been terminated
More details: declared that the United States' "military, naval, air and civilian defenses" should be used to fight communism as part of the Korean War. The second of four emergencies cited by Senate Report 93-549 as never having been terminated.
Proclaiming That an Unlimited National Emergency Confronts This Country, Which Requires That Its Military, Naval, Air and Civilian Defenses Be Put on the Basis of Readiness to Repel Any and All Acts or Threats of Aggression Directed Toward Any Part of the Western Hemisphere
More details: declaration of an unlimited national emergency under threat from Nazi Germany
Proclaiming a National Emergency in Connection with the Observance, Safeguarding, and Enforcement of Neutrality and the Strengthening of the National Defense Within the Limits of Peace-Time Authorizations
More details: Declared a bank holiday from March 6 through March 9, 1933, using the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917 as a legal basis. The first of four emergencies cited by Senate Report 93-549 as never having been terminated.
Emergency in Water Transportation of the United States
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