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Jul 24, 2025 · executive orderEnding Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
illicit drugs
Jul 21, 2025 · presidential noticeContinuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Significant Transnational Criminal Organizations

Executive Order EO 14321

Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets

SignedDonald Trump · Jul 24, 2025

Directs federal agencies to prioritize civil commitment and enforcement against homelessness, vagrancy, and drug use in cities.

Creates no new funding or legal authority. Agencies must use existing powers and work within current budget constraints. Does not change what Congress has already written into law.

What it does (17)

Purpose and Policy
- Cites 274,224 people counted as homeless in the last year of the previous administration
Restoring Civil Commitment
- Attorney General to seek reversal of federal or state court precedents that restrict civil commitment of mentally ill people
- Attorney General to provide technical guidance and grants to states for civil commitment and step-down treatment programs
Fighting Vagrancy on America's Streets
- Attorney General, HHS, HUD, and Transportation secretaries to give grant priority to jurisdictions enforcing drug, camping, loitering, and squatting bans
- Attorney General to evaluate homeless federal arrestees for civil commitment as sexually dangerous persons
- Attorney General to direct funds under Emergency Federal Law Enforcement Assistance program to encampment removal efforts
- Attorney General to assess federal resources to prevent release of detainees with serious mental illness due to bed shortages
- Attorney General to require prisons and reentry centers to maintain in-custody housing release plans
Redirecting Federal Resources Toward Effective Methods of Addressing Homelessness
- HHS to fund only evidence-based substance use and mental health programs, not harm reduction or safe consumption sites
- HHS to provide technical assistance to assisted outpatient treatment to move people into private housing and support networks
- HHS to ensure federally funded health centers reduce homelessness through crisis intervention and comprehensive services
- Attorney General to prioritize funding for drug courts and mental health courts
Increasing Accountability and Safety in America's Homelessness Programs
- HUD and HHS to end support for housing-first policies and hold grantees to higher effectiveness standards
- HUD to require homeless program participants with substance abuse or mental illness to use treatment services as a condition of aid
- Attorney General and HUD to review drug injection and safe consumption sites for federal legal violations and freeze federal aid if violations found
- HUD to require housing programs to keep sex offenders from being housed with unrelated children
- HUD to collect health data on homeless people and share it with law enforcement where permitted by law

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