Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on December 24, 2025, and December 26, 2025

[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 244 (Tuesday, December 23, 2025)]

[Presidential Documents]

[Pages 60545-60546]

From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

[FR Doc No: 2025-23847]

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Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 244 / Tuesday, December 23, 2025 /

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Executive Order 14371 of December 18, 2025

Providing for the Closing of Executive

Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on

December 24, 2025, and December 26, 2025

By the authority vested in me as President by the

Constitution and the laws of the United States of

America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. All executive departments and agencies of

the Federal Government shall be closed and their

employees excused from duty on Wednesday, December 24,

2025, and Friday, December 26, 2025, the day before and

the day following Christmas Day, respectively.

Sec. 2. The heads of executive departments and agencies

may determine that certain offices and installations of

their organizations, or parts thereof, must remain open

and that certain employees must report for duty on

December 24, 2025, or December 26, 2025, or both, for

reasons of national security, defense, or other public

need.

rtments and agencies

may determine that certain offices and installations of

their organizations, or parts thereof, must remain open

and that certain employees must report for duty on

December 24, 2025, or December 26, 2025, or both, for

reasons of national security, defense, or other public

need.

Sec. 3. December 24, 2025, and December 26, 2025, shall

be considered as falling within the scope of Executive

Order 11582 of February 11, 1971, and of 5 U.S.C. 5546

and 6103(b) and other similar statutes insofar as they

relate to the pay and leave of employees of the United

States.

Sec. 4. The Director of the Office of Personnel

Management shall take such actions as may be necessary

to implement this order.

Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order

shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or

the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget

relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with

applicable law and subject to the availability of

appropriations.

(c) This order 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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ions.

(c) This order 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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(d) The costs for publication of this order shall

be borne by the Office of Personnel Management.

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THE WHITE HOUSE,

December 18, 2025.

[FR Doc. 2025-23847

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