Executive Order 14416: Restoring Trust in the Smithsonian Institution

What the order contains

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• Sec. 1. Policy
• Sec. 2. Restoring Trust in the Smithsonian Institution
• Sec. 3. Warning Visitors About the Ideological Capture at the National Museum of American History
• Sec. 4. General Provisions

Section 1, quoted from the order

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On March 27, 2025, I issued Executive Order 14253 (Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History). Pursuant to that order, the Domestic Policy Council recently completed a months-long review of the Smithsonian Institution and its National Museum of American History (Museum) and issued its findings in the report entitled Saving America's Story: How Ideological Capture at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History Erases Our Heritage (Report). The Report demonstrates that the Smithsonian leadership does not present American history as a shared national inheritance to be taught and celebrated, but instead views American history as a ``prime tool'' to advance ideas of social justice and the radical transformation of our society. […]

Federal Register notes

See: EO 14253, March 27, 2025