Anonymous ID: e8ffd7 April 30, 2020, 9:59 a.m. No.8973493   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3496

Text of a Letter from the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate

Issued on: April 30, 2020

 

Dear Madam Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)

 

Effective today, pursuant to section 12304 of title 10, United States Code, I am authorizing the Secretary of Defense to order units and individual members of the Selected Reserve to active duty to augment active component forces for the effective conduct of “Enhanced Department of Defense Counternarcotic Operation in the Western Hemisphere.” This authority is necessary to ensure the Department of Defense can properly conduct operations required to meet our evolving security challenges.

 

I have enclosed a copy of the Executive Order I issued.

 

Sincerely,

 

DONALD J. TRUMP

Anonymous ID: e8ffd7 April 30, 2020, 10 a.m. No.8973513   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3521

Executive Order on Ordering the Selected Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty

Issued on: April 30, 2020

 

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 12304 of title 10, United States Code, and having determined that it is necessary to augment the regular Armed Forces of the United States for a named operational mission, specifically the “Enhanced Department of Defense Counternarcotic Operation in the Western Hemisphere,” I hereby order as follows:

 

Section 1. Activation Authority. The Secretary of Defense is directed to order to active duty for not more than 365 consecutive days, any units, and any individual members not assigned to a unit organized to serve as a unit, of the Selected Reserve under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Defense, not to exceed 200 Selected Reservists at any one time, as he considers necessary.

 

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 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.

 

DONALD J. TRUMP

 

THE WHITE HOUSE,

April 30, 2020.

 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-ordering-selected-reserve-armed-forces-active-duty/