Taking Additional Steps With Respect to the Situation in Syria

Executive Order 14142 of January 15, 2025

Taking Additional Steps With Respect to the
Situation in Syria

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including the International Emergency Economic
Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), the National
Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), section
212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952
(8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), and section 301 of title 3, United
States Code,

I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States
of America, in view of changing circumstances on the
ground in Syria and in order to take additional steps
with respect to the national emergency declared in
Executive Order 13894 of October 14, 2019 (Blocking
Property and Suspending Entry of Certain Persons
Contributing to the Situation in Syria), hereby order:

Section 1. Amendments to Executive Order 13894.
Executive Order 13894 is hereby amended by:

(a) striking from the second paragraph the phrase
``, and in particular the recent actions by the
Government of Turkey to conduct a military offensive
into northeast Syria,'';
(b) striking subsections (1)(a)(i)(B)-(F) and
inserting, in lieu thereof, the following:

``(B) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial,
material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in
support of, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked
pursuant to this order; or

(C) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for
or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and
interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order.''; and

(c) striking subsection 8(f).

Sec. 2. 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 persons.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

January 15, 2025.