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White House Advances Deregulatory Agenda

On April 9, 2025, President Trump issued a memorandum directing federal agencies to begin repealing regulations deemed “clearly unlawful,” particularly those invalidated or undermined by recent Supreme Court rulings such as...more

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President Orders Sweeping FAR Revisions

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On April 15, 2025, President Trump issued a highly anticipated Executive Order (EO) calling for the abrupt and drastic reduction of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). The EO gives the Office of Federal Procurement...more

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Trump Administration Calls for Additional Deregulatory Action

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Last week, President Trump issued several actions, including executive orders and instructions to agencies, that direct agency heads to review and repeal regulations deemed unlawful or anti-competitive. The actions further...more

Stoel Rives - Environmental Law Blog

Fed up with Federal Rules?  OMB Implements a Federal Deregulation Idea Solicitation Process on White House Urging.

On April 9, 2025, the White House published a new Memorandumentitled “Directing The Repeal of Unlawful Regulations,” aimed at identifying and reviewing unlawful or potentially unlawful regulations for potential repeal. The...more

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Significant Workforce Reductions at the U.S. Department of Education and Their Potential Implications

On March 11, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education announced that it would initiate a reduction in force (RIF), affecting nearly 50 percent of its workforce. ...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Trump orders review of regulations to help the ‘deconstruction of the overbearing and burdensome administrative state’

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President Trump has issued an Executive Order that requires agencies to review all regulations “for consistency with law and Administration policy.”...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Rolling Back the Administrative State: Understanding Trump’s Deregulatory Initiative

On February 19, 2025, President Donald Trump issued the executive order “Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ Deregulatory Initiative” (the 2025 EO). The 2025 EO,...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

New Administration Outlook: Trump's Executive Order on Independent Agencies—and Asserting the Unitary Executive (Part 1)

Despite the tone and tint of recent headlines, President Trump's February 18, 2025, "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" Executive Order (the "Accountability EO") appears to be the latest in a long line of efforts to...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy (Trump EO Tracker)

Commences a reduction in the elements of the Federal bureaucracy that the President has determined are unnecessary. The non-statutory components and functions of several governmental entities shall be eliminated to the...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Deregulatory Initiative (Trump...

Directs agency heads, in coordination with their Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team lead and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director, to initiate a process to review all agency regulations and rescind...more

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Trump Issues Executive Order for Deregulation

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President Donald J. Trump, in December 2017, discussed the number of regulations eliminated in his first Administration’s “far-reaching regulatory reform,” known as the “two-for-one rule.” Eleven months earlier, Trump had...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

New Administration Outlook: Court Grants Partial Temporary Restraining Order on Executive Order Halting Foreign Aid

On Thursday, February 13, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a partial temporary restraining order in response to lawsuits challenging Executive Order 14169, which paused all congressionally...more

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Federal OMB Funding Freeze and Litigation Primer

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Amid a surge of presidential executive orders since the change in administrations, the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has published a series of documents that have spawned much confusion and litigation. Via...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

Trump’s Executive Order: Ten Regulations to be Eliminated for Every New One

Seeking to “unleash prosperity through deregulation” and fulfilling a campaign promise, President Trump has signed an executive order to implement a requirement that for every new regulation, ten existing regulations must be...more

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Democratic AGs Secure Order Blocking Federal Funding Freeze

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A coalition of 23 Democratic AGs, led by California AG Rob Bonta and New York AG Letitia James, has secured a temporary restraining order blocking a directive from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that would...more

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Executive Order: Regulatory Freeze Pending Review

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Date Issued: Jan. 20, 2025 This executive order issues a regulatory freeze on all executive departments and agencies to review pending and existing laws and regulations. The freeze mandates that unpublished rules be...more

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Federal Freeze Rescinded: Implications for Tribal Governments and ANCs

On January 27th, the Trump administration ordered a freeze on all disbursements of federal funds through a memorandum signed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The OMB memo stated that the freeze does not apply to...more

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The OMB Issued a Memo Freezing Federal Financial Assistance. And Then Rescinded the Memo, But Not the Freeze. Confused? Read On

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On January 29, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rescinded M-25-13, which it had issued two days earlier, and which required federal agencies to "temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Responding to Recent Guidance on OMB’s Temporary Pause of Federal Financial Assistance Programs

On January 27, 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued an internal memo (Memo M-25-13) directing all federal agencies to temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all federal...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Trump Administration (Sort Of) Abandons Funding Freeze

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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued memorandum M-25-13, “Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and Other Financial Assistance Programs,” (OMB Memo) on Tuesday, January 27, 2025. Two days later on January 29,...more

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Navigating the Impact of the Trump Administration’s Federal Funding Freeze

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This bulletin discusses and advises about the recent flurry of activity from the Trump Administration directing a freeze on the expenditure of certain federal funds. We summarize the current status of the now rescinded...more

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White House Pauses Federal Funding Under Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Acts

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On January 20, 2025, the White House issued an Executive Order titled Unleashing American Energy. Citing the detrimental effect of “ideologically motivated regulations,” the Order broadly establishes a new executive energy...more

Cozen O'Connor

Democratic AGs Give Chilly Reception to Federal Funding Freeze

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A coalition of 23 Democratic AGs, led by New York AG Letitia James, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island to block a directive from the Trump administration’s Office of Management and...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

An Impoundment By Any Other Name

A Monday night memorandum issued by the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) ordered federal agencies to “temporarily pause” all federal funding and other agency activities that “may be implicated by” the slew of executive...more

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On His Eighth Day in Office, President Trump Gave to Me Memorandum No. M-25-13

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Just eight (8) days into President Trump’s second term (and following other headline-making Executive Orders which Goodwin has covered here and here), the Acting Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) Director issued...more

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