Trump set to sign executive order on college sports to regain control of NIL

President Donald Trump is acceptable to motion an enforcement bid for assemblage sports this week aft hosting a roundtable addressing respective hot-button issues past month.

CBS News reported that the order, which would beryllium the 2nd for Trump, could beryllium signed arsenic aboriginal arsenic Friday. The outlet added that the bid volition purpose to summation the NCAA’s power implicit athletes amid the caller epoch of name, image, and likeness.

Last month, Trump hosted NCAA President Charlie Baker, erstwhile Alabama caput shot manager Nick Saban, New York Yankees President Randy Levine and each of the Power Four commissioners, among others astatine a roundtable. Trump called the roundtable to analyse solutions to cardinal challenges, including NCAA authority, NIL issues, corporate bargaining, and governance concerns.

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U.S. President Donald Trump looks connected during a roundtable treatment connected assemblage sports successful the East Room of the White House connected March 06, 2026 successful Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

"This is the future, I think, beyond assemblage sports. This is the aboriginal of colleges," Trump said to footwear disconnected the roundtable. "The magnitude of wealth being spent and mislaid by different precise palmy schools is astounding conscionable successful a abbreviated play of time. It's lone going to get worse. We person to prevention assemblage sports, and, I believe, colleges.

"Crazy things are happening. ... We person a seven-year freshman. We're seeing things we've ne'er seen before. College players not wanting to spell pro due to the fact that they marque much wealth successful college," helium added.

Trump said he'd constitute an enforcement bid "based connected large communal sense."

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 14: U.S. President Donald Trumpholds up a shot presented to Trump during a presumption ceremonial for the Commander-in-Chief Trophy to the Navy Midshipmen shot squad successful the East Room of the White House April 15, 2025 successful Washington, DC. The Commander-in-Chief Trophy is awarded to the victor of the American assemblage shot bid among the teams of the U.S. Military Academy (Army Black Knights), the U.S. Naval Academy (Navy Midshipmen), and the U.S. Air Force Academy (Air Force Falcons). (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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The SCORE Act was astatine the forefront of the roundtable. It was scheduled to beryllium voted connected successful December but the ballot was canceled soon before. The White House endorsed the act, but 3 Republicans — Byron Donalds of Florida, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Chip Roy of Texas — voted with Democrats not to bring the enactment to the floor. Democrats person mostly opposed the bill, urging members of the House to ballot against it.

The Act would springiness the NCAA a constricted antitrust exemption successful hopes of protecting the NCAA from imaginable lawsuits implicit eligibility rules and would prohibit athletes from becoming employees of their schools. It prohibits schools from utilizing pupil fees to money NIL payments.

The president's bid from July prohibits athletes from receiving pay-to-play payments from third-party sources. However, the bid did not enforce immoderate restrictions connected NIL payments to assemblage athletes by third-party sources. It besides demands that schools relationship for preserving resources for the non-revenue sports.

President Donald Trump looks connected earlier the assemblage shot crippled betwixt the US Army and Navy astatine the M&T Bank Stadium successful Baltimore, Maryland, connected Dec. 13, 2025. (Alex Wroblewski/AFP)

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A period earlier Trump's order, a justice approved a colony betwixt the NCAA, its astir almighty conferences and lawyers representing each Division I athletes. The woody means the NCAA volition wage adjacent to $2.8 cardinal successful backmost damages implicit the adjacent 10 years to assemblage athletes who competed from 2016 to 2025. The colony besides allows for assemblage programs to wage athletes directly.

Last month, Trump signed an enforcement bid to support the Army-Navy crippled a standalone contest.

Fox News' Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.

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