Executive Order 14420: Delivering Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations for Americans

What the order contains

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• Sec. 1. Purpose and Policy
• Sec. 2. Recommendations for Childhood and Adolescent Vaccines
• Sec. 3. Improving Vaccine Research and Options for American Parents
• Sec. 4. Maximizing Parental Choice over Childhood Vaccines
• Sec. 5. General Provisions

Section 1, quoted from the order

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Pursuant to the Presidential Memorandum of December 5, 2025 (Aligning United States Core Childhood Vaccine Recommendations with Best Practices from Peer, Developed Countries), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) completed a scientific assessment, which identified a set of consensus vaccines that are consistently recommended in all peer countries and found that the United States currently recommends more childhood vaccines than any peer nation, including more than twice as many vaccine doses as some European nations (scientific assessment). The scientific assessment also found that, instead of implementing vaccination mandates, most peer nations maintain high childhood vaccination rates through public trust and education. In the United States, by contrast, individual States set mandatory vaccination requirements that children must meet to attend school. […]

Federal Register notes

See: EO 14407, May 29, 2026