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

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.

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.

(d) The costs for publication of this order shall
be borne by the Office of Personnel Management.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

December 18, 2025.