# Executive Order 14157 **Title:** Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists **Date:** January 20, 2025 **Entity class:** Presidential executive order ## Definition **Executive Order 14157** established a federal policy and designation process for treating specified cartels and other transnational organizations under foreign-terrorism and sanctions authorities. Subsequent designations changed the legal and intelligence framework applied to those organizations. ## Relationships - **issued by:** [[wiki/President of the United States|President of the United States]]. - **designation category:** [[wiki/Foreign Terrorist Organization|Foreign Terrorist Organization]]. - **expanded work of:** [[wiki/National Counterterrorism Center|NCTC]]. - **operational context:** [[wiki/Joint Interagency Task Force-Counter Cartel|JIATF-CC]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [The White House — Executive Order 14157](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/designating-cartels-and-other-organizations-as-foreign-terrorist-organizations-and-specially-designated-global-terrorists/)