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Transportation Regulation Reforms - U.S. DOT Seeks Public Comment by May 5

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The U.S. Department of Transportation is seeking public comment on opportunities to reform transportation regulations.  The comment period ends next week. This effort is part of President Trump’s “Ten for One” regulatory...more

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Hold My Beer: The Trump Administration’s Bold Plan to Rewrite the FAR

On April 15, 2025, President Trump issued a sweeping executive order (EO), “Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement.” As reflected in its accompanying Fact Sheet, the EO promises to rewrite the Federal Acquisition...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Strengthening Probationary Periods in the Federal Service (Trump EO Tracker)

The Order institutes a new Civil Service Rule XI to ensure agencies effectively utilize probationary and trial periods. Civil Service Rule XI supersedes subpart H and requires agencies to affirmatively determine that the...more

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CMS Releases Fiscal Year 2026 IPPS and LTCH Proposed Rule

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on April 11, 2025, issued the proposed fiscal year (FY) 2026 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Acute Care Hospital (LTCH) Rule...more

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Trump Administration's Regulatory Sunset Executive Order Finds Similarities in Long-Standing Texas Act

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President Trump issued Executive Order ("EO") 14270 to reform the regulatory framework governing energy production through sunset provisions on all existing and future energy regulation....more

King & Spalding

Executive Order Continues Focuses on Anticompetitive Regulations

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On April 9, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order, titled “Reducing Anti-Competitive Regulatory Barriers” (the EO), directing federal agencies to identify and rescind or modify anticompetitive regulations. The EO...more

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FAR Reform Now Underway

The current administration’s efforts to reform the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) are now officially underway. On April 15, 2025, in an Executive Order titled Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement (EO or...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

FTC seeks public input on reducing anti-competitive regulatory barriers

On April 14, the FTC released a Request for Public Comment seeking input on reducing anti-competitive regulations in accordance with Executive Order 14267. The FTC invites public comments to identify federal regulations that...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Treasury issues final rule to eliminate several regulations

On April 15, the Treasury issued a direct final rule to eliminate several regulations or portions of regulations it deemed unnecessary in response to an Executive Order 14219 directing agencies to pursue deregulation. The...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

The CFPB Shuts Down Controversial "Regulation Through Guidance" Practices

The acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) continues to winnow out regulatory tools used by agency staff under the prior administration. Just a month after revoking certain interpretative rules and...more

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And Here We Go – Reformation of the FAR Directed by Executive Order

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As we have hinted at (and even mentioned) in some of our more recent client alerts, the proverbial other shoe has now dropped. In the April 15, 2025, Executive Order entitled "Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement"...more

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FTC Launches Public Inquiry – Anticompetitive Regulations on the Chopping Block

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On April 9, President Trump issued an Executive Order instructing agency heads, in consultation with the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Attorney General, to complete a review of all regulations subject...more

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Trump Executive Order Requires FERC, Other Agencies to Add Sunset Rule into Regulations

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President Donald Trump issued an executive order (EO) titled "Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy" that directs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and three other federal agencies to...more

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EPA Will Review 2024 Rule Amending the TSCA Risk Evaluation Framework Rule

On March 10, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its intent to reconsider the May 3, 2024, rule amending the procedural framework rule for conducting risk evaluations under the Toxic Substances...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Closing the GRAS Loophole: Secretary Kennedy’s Plan To Enhance FDA Food Safety Regulations

On March 10, 2025, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. initiated a significant shift in the regulation of ultra-processed foods by directing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to revise the GRAS (Generally Recognized...more

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Trump Administration Changes Seek to Avoid Notice and Comment Hurdles

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Our Health Care and Health Care Litigation Groups examine a policy move by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that will allow the department to forgo notice and comment procedures for many of its regulations....more

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CEQ Sounds Death Knell for Existing NEPA Regulations

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The rapid changes relating to NEPA-implementing regulations accelerated this week, as the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) published an interim final rule (IFR) removing its NEPA regulations from the Code of...more

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President Trump Issues "Regulatory Freeze" Memorandum

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On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump issued a presidential memorandum (Memo) ordering all executive departments and agencies to temporarily pause certain regulatory actions until they can be reviewed and approved by...more

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FDA Delays Effective Date for Final Healthy Rule

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On February 25, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) delayed the effective date for its final “Healthy” rule from February 25, 2025 to April 28, 20251. The delayed effective date is in line with President Trump’s...more

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President Trump to Federal Agencies: “I’ve Got This”

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President Trump’s February 18th Executive Order entitled, “Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies,” represents a sweeping effort to consolidate federal executive branch lawmaking power with the President. The Order’s...more

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CEQ Regulations Replaced by Guidance for a Year of Living in Uncertainty

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On February 19, 2025, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) submitted to the Federal Register an interim final rule rescinding its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations, which have been the foundation for...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

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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Telephone and Texting Compliance News: Regulatory Update — Robocalling Proceedings Potentially Impacted by Regulatory Freeze

On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order directing all “executive departments and agencies” to pause any currently pending proceedings and review any proposed or adopted rules that have not yet taken...more

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Navigating Executive Orders: Insights and What Lies Ahead

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On January 20, 2025, a new administration took control of the Executive Branch of the federal government, and it has signaled that it will make aggressive use of executive orders....more

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