White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience
This executive order establishes the White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience, a senior interagency body within the Executive Office of the President to coordinate and accelerate federal efforts to strengthen the resilience, diversity, and security of United States supply chains. Led by the President’s national security and economic policy arms (Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy) as co-chairs, the Council brings together a broad group of cabinet secretaries and senior officials to identify vulnerabilities in critical and essential goods, promote domestic production, diversify supplier bases, and enhance data, coordination, and policy actions across the federal government. The order directs regular meetings, requires a quadrennial review of key industries, and tasks the Council with providing recommendations on budget needs, policy actions, and reforms to support resilience and competitiveness. It updates and reinforces guidance from prior executive orders (notably EO 14017) and emphasizes coordination with allies, while clarifying that the order does not create new rights and depends on appropriations. Key elements include a formal Council structure within the White House, a comprehensive membership list, a mandate to identify and address supply chain risks, a requirement for external stakeholder engagement, and a process for ongoing assessment and reporting on critical industries and policies to bolster resilience and national/economic security.
Key Points
- 1Creation and leadership of the White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience, housed in the Executive Office of the President, co-chaired by the APNSA and the APEP, to drive interagency action on supply chain resilience.
- 2Broad membership of the Council, including major federal departments and offices (State, Treasury, Defense, Justice, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, HHS, HUD, Transportation, Energy, Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security, EPA, OMB, DNI, USTR, CEA, SBA, OSTP, and others), with invitations for the heads of other agencies as needed.
- 3Defined mandate to strengthen long-term supply chain resilience and American industrial competitiveness through coordinating policy, identifying resources, recommending administrative actions, coordinating with interagency bodies, and ensuring government actions promote a fair, open, and competitive marketplace while protecting workers’ rights and quality jobs.
- 4Quadrennial supply chain review requirement for industries critical to national or economic security, including a first report due by December 31, 2024, with subsequent reports every four years. Topics include federal incentives, strategic/diplomatic plans, insulation of analyses from conflicts of interest, legislative and trade rule reforms, education and workforce needs, and ensuring policy support for small businesses and regional economic diversity.
- 5Implementation and governance provisions: each agency must designate a senior official to coordinate with the Council; the Council may form subgroups; meetings are semiannual unless more are needed; each agency bears its own participation costs; implementation is subject to law and appropriations; the order supersedes certain provisions of EO 14017 where stated (notably section 5(c)).