# 2025-03138: DOGE Initiative Targets Overreaching Federal Rules

2025-03138, Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Deregulatory Initiative, is a Federal Register presidential document from Executive Office of the President published 2025-02-25, effective 2025-02-19 (as of 2026-11-04).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-03138
- As of: 2026-11-04
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-03138
- Title: Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Deregulatory Initiative
- Type: Presidential Document
- Agencies: Executive Office of the President
- Citation: 90 FR 10583
- Published: 2025-02-25
- Effective: 2025-02-19
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-11-04

## In one line

DOGE Initiative Targets Overreaching Federal Rules

## Summary

The President is ordering federal agencies to review and cut back on rules that go beyond their legal power or hurt businesses and innovation. This means agencies have 60 days to find and fix or remove unfair or costly regulations, especially those that slow down progress or burden small businesses. The goal is to make government work better, save money, and protect our Constitution.

## Effects PRIA read

- Review and Remove Costly Rules: benefit, medium. Federal agencies must identify regulations that "impose significant costs upon private parties that are not outweighed by public benefits" and, within 60 days of February 19, 2025, give lists of those regulations to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs so they can be rescinded or change…
- De-Prioritizing Enforcement of Weak Rules: benefit, medium. Agencies are ordered to generally de-prioritize enforcing regulations that are not based on the "best reading" of a statute or that exceed federal constitutional power, and may, on a case-by-case basis, direct termination of enforcement proceedings that do not comply with law or Administration poli…
- Priority Review for Small-Business Burdens: benefit, medium. Agencies must identify regulations that "impose undue burdens on small business and impede private enterprise and entrepreneurship" and prioritize reviewing those rules. Agencies have 60 days from February 19, 2025 to provide the required lists to OIRA.
- Targeting Rules That Impede Innovation: benefit, medium. The order directs agencies to identify regulations that "harm the national interest by significantly and unjustifiably impeding technological innovation, infrastructure development, disaster response, inflation reduction, research and development, economic development, energy production, land use,…

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## Sources
- [2025-03138 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/25/2025-03138/ensuring-lawful-governance-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency)
- [2025-03138 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-02-25/pdf/2025-03138.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-03138 (as of 2026-11-04).