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View submission: A Legal Researcher's Guide to Trump Anti-Trans Executive Orders
Executive Orders are limited by that act to pretty much just national security matters
I'd really like to see a citation on that. You're giving legal advice reliant on that being true and when I've asked about it, you said you answered it in other comments.
Everything I can find on this suggests that's not true and that the SSA is subject to Executive Orders, eg, their employees are required to return to in person work because of Trump's new EO. Similar with the various orders relating to COVID.
Similarly, Biden directed the SSA to various actions with Executive Order 13988 (which allowed gender marker changes without medical documentation), to implement DEI initiatives[1] (Executive Order 14091),
[T]he Commissioner of Social Security[...] shall, within 30 days of the date of this order, ensure that they have in place an Agency Equity Team within their respective agencies to coordinate the implementation of equity initiatives and ensure that their respective agencies are delivering equitable outcomes for the American people.
and to create a "support modernized customer experiences"[2] (Executive Order 14058) that likewise states "the Commissioner of Social Security *shall*".
Executive Order 13520 is an example from early in the Obama Administration and a source from the SSA[3] stating they complied with it.
3: https://oig-files.ssa.gov/audits/full/A-15-19-50846.pdf
I'll readily grant that they're an independent agency and that the president doesn't have *direct* control over it but it seems *very* clear they're still subject to many EOs and the administration's agenda, particularly as it relates to the executive branch as a whole or when those EOs direct the work/administration of SS programs.
If Biden can direct the SSA to accommodate gender marker programs and DEI initiatives, why can't Trump do the opposite?
There's nothing here!