Memorandum To Resolve the Backlog of Security Clearances for Executive Office of the President Personnel
Memorandum
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January 30, 2025
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Document 2025-02033
Summary
President Donald Trump issued a memorandum to address the backlog of security clearances for personnel in the Executive Office of the President, which he attributes to the previous Biden Administration. The memorandum grants interim Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearances to affected personnel for up to six months, enabling them to perform their duties. This action, while aiming to expedite governmental operations, may raise legal and political concerns regarding the bypassing of standard clearance procedures and the potential risks associated with granting interim clearances.
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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 [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02033]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 19 / Thursday, January 30, 2025 /
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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.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
Washington, January 20, 2025
[FR Doc. 2025-02033
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