By the authority vested in me as President by the Structure and the legal guidelines of the US of America, it’s hereby ordered:
Part 1. Objective. (a) America’s dwell live performance and leisure business is the envy of the world. However it has turn into blighted by unscrupulous middlemen who sit on the intersection between artists and followers and impose egregious charges whereas offering minimal worth. Ticket scalpers use bots and different unfair means to amass massive portions of face-value tickets after which re-sell them at an infinite markup on the secondary market, price-gouging customers and depriving followers of the chance to see their favourite artists with out incurring extraordinary bills. By some studies, followers have paid as a lot as 70 instances face worth to acquire a ticket. When this happens, the artists don’t obtain any revenue. All income go solely to the scalper and the ticketing company.
(b) My Administration is dedicated to creating as accessible as potential the humanities and leisure that enrich Individuals’ lives. The rent-seeking behaviors surrounding the ticketing business are opposite to this objective. They’re detrimental to customers and capitalize on market distortions that should not be allowed to persist.
Sec. 2. Implementation. My Administration shall use all lawful authority to handle the conduct described in part 1 of this order. Accordingly, I direct that:
(a) the Lawyer Common and the Federal Commerce Fee (FTC) be sure that competitors legal guidelines are appropriately enforced within the live performance and leisure business, together with the place venues, ticketing brokers, or combos thereof function to the detriment of artists and followers;
(b) the FTC rigorously implement the Higher On-line Tickets Gross sales Act, 15 U.S.C. 45c, and collaborate with State Attorneys Common or different State client safety officers on enforcement of the Higher On-line Ticket Gross sales Act, together with by offering such State officers with info or proof obtained by the FTC when according to relevant legislation;
(c) the FTC take applicable motion, together with proposing rules if obligatory, to make sure value transparency in any respect levels of the ticket-purchase course of, together with the secondary ticketing market;
(d) the FTC consider and, if applicable, take enforcement motion to stop unfair, misleading, and anti-competitive conduct within the secondary ticketing market; and
(e) the Secretary of the Treasury and Lawyer Common guarantee, as applicable, that ticket scalpers are working in full compliance with the Inner Income Code and different relevant legislation.
Sec. 3. Report. Inside 180 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of the Treasury, Lawyer Common, and Chairman of the FTC shall collectively submit a report back to the Assistant to the President for Financial Coverage and the Director of the Workplace and Administration and Finances describing the actions they’ve taken to implement this order. The report shall additionally determine any suggestions for rules or laws obligatory to guard customers with respect to the dwell live performance and leisure business.
Sec. 4. Common Provisions. (a) Nothing on this order shall be construed to impair or in any other case have an effect on:
(i) the authority granted by legislation to an government division or company, or the pinnacle thereof; or
(ii) the features of the Director of the Workplace of Administration and Finances referring to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be carried out according to relevant legislation and topic to the supply of appropriations.
(c) This order is just not supposed to, and doesn’t, create any proper or profit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at legislation or in fairness by any celebration towards the US, its departments, businesses, or entities, its officers, workers, or brokers, or every other particular person.
DONALD J. TRUMP
THE WHITE HOUSE,
March 31, 2025.
