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For decades, businesses have focused on “doing more with less,” maximizing efficiency by optimizing resources and streamlining processes to achieve greater output with fewer inputs. This effort often involves leveraging...more
Recent developments include leadership changes, workforce reductions, and policy shifts at HHS and FDA, reshaping agency operations under President Trump’s administration....more
Earlier this week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a broad request for information (RFI) seeking input on how to “dramatically deregulate across all areas the Department touches.”1 It specifically...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Request for Information (RFI) on May 13, 2025, titled "Ensuring Lawful Regulation and Unleashing Innovation to...more
Recognizing that “regulations that reduce competition, entrepreneurship, and innovation” are harmful to the U.S. economy, the Federal Trade Commission is seeking comment from the public on federal regulations that “exclude...more
President Donald Trump has made reducing the size and scope of the federal government a central part of his second-term agenda. Toward that end, in recent days the Trump administration has taken aggressive steps toward...more
The orders span various sectors and aim to introduce sunset provisions into regulations and eliminate regulations deemed unlawful or anti-competitive....more
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
On April 9, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order directing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to lead a process for identifying and rescinding or modifying anticompetitive federal regulations that “reduce...more
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
As contemplated in December 2024, the Federal Trade Commission’s operations during the first two months under the second Trump Administration have been chaotic. Unsurprisingly, the policy focus appears to be de-regulation...more
On March 12, 2025, the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") issued a flurry of press releases announcing its plan to rollback dozens of Biden-era, as well as earlier, environmental regulations. This historic move is part...more
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced on March 12, 2025, that EPA will undertake 31 distinct actions in an effort to advance President Donald Trump's Day One executive orders (EOs) to...more
On March 12, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a Public Notice titled “In Re: Delete, Delete, Delete,” which seeks public comment on “identifying FCC rules for the purpose of alleviating unnecessary...more
Amidst the flurry of Executive Orders (“EOs”) that tends to accompany any new administration, one EO may have flown under the radar. But for the regulated community—which, these days, includes most businesses in some form or...more
President Trump has issued an Executive Order that requires agencies to review all regulations “for consistency with law and Administration policy.”...more
President Trump issued an Executive Order this week that broadly targets federal regulations and guidance for review and rescission, amid a flurry of activity focused on limiting the size and reach of government. The February...more
On February 19, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order titled “Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ Deregulatory Initiative” (“the Deregulation EO” or...more
Executive Order Directing Deregulation and Termination of Certain Regulatory Enforcement Actions - On February 19, 2025, in an executive order titled Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President’s “Department...more
President Donald Trump has kicked off his second term with multiple headline-grabbing environmental acts. The Stinson LLP environmental team summarizes major actions and provides insight below on what it means for the...more
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
Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector....more
President Trump, on January 31, 2025, issued Executive Order 14192, “Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation.” This has been referred to as President Trump’s “ten-to-one deregulation initiative” that he spoke about when he...more
On January 31, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14192 which is formally titled, “Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation,” but could gain notoriety as the “10 for 1 Order.” The Order has several parallels to a...more
On January 31, President Trump announced that he signed Executive Order 14192 focusing on deregulation efforts such as requiring federal agencies to repeal at least ten existing rules or regulations for every new one...more