Revocation of Executive Order 13770

What it means

Revokes the ethics rules that Trump's administration had implemented for executive branch appointees. The order releases current and former employees from previous ethics commitments, effective at noon on January 20, 2021, when the Biden administration took office.

Expected impact

• Allows incoming Biden administration to establish its own ethics guidelines for appointees without being bound by previous administration's rules
• Former Trump administration officials are released from post-employment restrictions that had limited their lobbying activities
• Provides a clean slate for the new administration to implement its own approach to ethics and conflicts of interest