Orders agencies to adopt "Gold Standard Science" guidance focused on reproducibility, transparency, and unbiased review. Mandates public data access for influential science, restricts highly unlikely scenarios, reverts to pre-2021 policies, and creates internal enforcement mechanisms. This directive represents a political effort to redefine acceptable federal science, prioritizing specific methodologies (like data transparency) often used to challenge consensus findings, particularly on climate and public health. It aims to reverse prior administration policies under the guise of restoring rigor, sparking debate on whether it enhances integrity or imposes an ideological filter on scientific input.