Executive Order No. 14371. Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on December 24, 2025, and December 26, 2025

• Executive Order No.: 14371
• Published date: 23 December 2025
• Citation: 90 FR 60545
• Date: 18 December 2025
• Section: Presidential Documents

Presidential Documents

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Executive Order 14371 of December 18, 2025

Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and

Agencies of the Federal Government on December 24, 2025,

and December 26, 2025

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the

laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. All executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government

shall be closed and their employees excused from duty on Wednesday,

December 24, 2025, and Friday, December 26, 2025, the day before and

the day following Christmas Day, respectively.

Sec. 2. The heads of executive departments and agencies may determine

that certain offices and installations of their organizations, or parts thereof,

must remain open and that certain employees must report for duty on

December 24, 2025, or December 26, 2025, or both, for reasons of national

security, defense, or other public need.

Sec. 3. December 24, 2025, and December 26, 2025, shall be considered

as falling within the scope of Executive Order 11582 of February 11, 1971,

and of 5 U.S.C. 5546 and 6103(b) and other similar statutes insofar as

they relate to the pay and leave of employees of the United States.

Sec. 4. The Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall take

such actions as may be necessary to implement this order.

Sec. 5. 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

(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.

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(d) The costs for publication of this order shall be borne by the Office

of Personnel Management.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

December 18, 2025.

[FR Doc. 2025–23847

Filed 12–22–25; 11:15 am]

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