Authority To Order the Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty To Address International Drug Trafficking

Executive Order 14097 of April 27, 2023

Authority To Order the Ready Reserve of the Armed
Forces to Active Duty To Address International Drug
Trafficking

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including the National Emergencies Act (50
U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and in furtherance of Executive
Order 14059 of December 15, 2021 (Imposing Sanctions on
Foreign Persons Involved in the Global Illicit Drug
Trade), which declared a national emergency to address
the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national
security, foreign policy, and economy of the United
States posed by international drug trafficking, it is
hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Emergency Authority. To provide additional
authority to the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary
of Homeland Security to respond to the national
emergency declared in Executive Order 14059, the
authority under section 12302 of title 10, United
States Code, is invoked and made available, according
to its terms, to the Secretary of Defense and the
Secretary of Homeland Security. The Secretaries of the
Army, Navy, and Air Force, at the direction of the
Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland
Security with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not
operating as a service in the Navy, are authorized to
order to active duty such units and individual members
of the Ready Reserve under the jurisdiction of the
Secretary concerned as the Secretary concerned
considers necessary, consistent with the terms of
section 12302 of title 10, United States Code.

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 person.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

April 27, 2023.