Memorandum To Resolve the Backlog of Security Clearances for Executive Office of the President Personnel

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January 30, 2025

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January 20, 2025

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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 19 (Thursday, January 30, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 8477-8478]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02033]




                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 19 / Thursday, January 30, 2025 / 
Presidential Documents

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                Memorandum of January 20, 2025

                
Memorandum To Resolve the Backlog of Security 
                Clearances for Executive Office of the President 
                Personnel

                Memorandum to the White House Counsel

                The Executive Office of the President requires 
                qualified and trusted personnel to execute its mandate 
                on behalf of the American people. There is a backlog 
                created by the Biden Administration in the processing 
                of security clearances of individuals hired to work in 
                the Executive Office of the President. Because of this 
                backlog and the bureaucratic process and broken 
                security clearance process, individuals who have not 
                timely received the appropriate clearances are 
                ineligible for access to the White House complex, 
                infrastructure, and technology and are therefore unable 
                to perform the duties for which they were hired. This 
                is unacceptable.

                Therefore, by the authority vested in me as President 
                by the Constitution and the laws of the United States 
                of America, I hereby order:

                    1. The White House Counsel to provide the White 
                House Security Office and Acting Chief Security Officer 
                with a list of personnel that are hereby immediately 
                granted interim Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented 
                Information (TS/SCI) security clearances for a period 
                not to exceed six months; and
                    2. That these individuals shall be immediately 
                granted access to the facilities and technology 
                necessary to perform the duties of the office to which 
                they have been hired; and
                    3. The White House Counsel, as my designee, may 
                supplement this list as necessary; and
                    4. The White House Counsel, as my designee, shall 
                have the authority to revoke the interim clearance of 
                any individual as necessary.

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                This memorandum 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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                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, January 20, 2025

[FR Doc. 2025-02033
Filed 1-29-25; 8:45 am]
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