Establishing the President's Make America Beautiful Again Commission
This Executive Order (Executive Order 14313, July 3, 2025) creates the President's Make America Beautiful Again Commission, an interagency advisory body chaired by the Secretary of the Interior and led day-to-day by the White House Assistant for Domestic Policy. The Commission is charged with advising the President on conserving national parks, public lands, and waters; reducing bureaucratic delays; expanding public access for recreation (including hunting and fishing); and promoting voluntary, collaborative approaches to recover fish and wildlife and restore water quality and ecosystems. The Order emphasizes tackling large maintenance backlogs in the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service, supporting outdoor recreation as an economic driver, and favoring coordination and voluntary conservation over new regulatory approaches. The Order is advisory only, does not change existing statutory authorities, must be carried out consistent with law and available funding, and does not create enforceable legal rights.
Key Points
- 1Establishes the President's Make America Beautiful Again Commission, chaired by the Secretary of the Interior with the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy as Executive Director.
- 2Commission membership includes senior officials (or designees) from Defense, Agriculture, EPA, OMB, Council of Economic Advisers, White House Chief of Staff, Economic Policy Office, Council on Environmental Quality, and other invited administration officials.
- 3Sets broad policy goals for federal land management agencies to promote stewardship while supporting economic growth; expand access for recreation, hunting, and fishing; encourage voluntary conservation; reduce bureaucratic delays; and recover fish and wildlife through collaborative, on-the-ground actions.
- 4Directs the Commission to monitor implementation, coordinate across agencies, provide actionable recommendations to the President, develop collaboration-focused wildlife recovery policies (including coordination with State wildlife agencies), recommend ways to expand clean drinking water access and restore aquatic ecosystems, and expand public access and recreation opportunities on public lands.
- 5Includes limits and implementation rules: it does not alter existing agency legal authorities or OMB functions, must be consistent with law and available appropriations (funding from Congress), creates no private legal rights, and assigns publication costs to the Department of the Interior.