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A recent Presidential Memorandum aims to consolidate the funding process for energy infrastructure and critical minerals projects in the United States via a "one stop shop" that would transform the way large projects seek and...more
On April 9, 2025, President Trump directed federal agencies to repeal certain categories of regulations in his memorandum entitled Directing the Repeal of Unlawful Regulations (“Memorandum”). In this Memorandum, President...more
President Trump issued a Memorandum on April 6 directing the heads of all executive departments and agencies to identify on a fast-track basis (60 days) certain categories of “unlawful and potentially unlawful” regulations...more
OVERVIEW: •On March 22, 2025, the Trump administration published a Presidential Memorandum titled: Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court. •The memo directs Attorney General (AG) Pam Bondi to seek...more
On February 21, 2025, President Trump issued a new memorandum addressing both foreign investment into the United States and outbound investment by US persons. Without imposing immediate legal or regulatory changes, the...more
On February 21, 2025, President Trump issued a National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) that sets out his administration's “America First Investment Policy,” with a particular focus on promoting foreign investment...more
On February 13, 2025, President Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum on “Reciprocal Trade and Tariffs” (the “Reciprocal Tariffs Memorandum”), introducing the “Fair and Reciprocal Plan” to determine “the equivalent of a...more
On 21 February 2025, President Trump ordered three additional steps to implement the America First Trade Policy announced on 20 January 2025: Establish a notice and comment process for the US Trade Representative (USTR) to...more
On Friday, February 21, 2025, President Trump issued a National Security Presidential Memorandum (“NSPM”) titled “America First Investment Policy” which directed multiple federal agencies to take action to further restrict...more
On Friday, February 21st, President Trump issued a National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) that is aimed at promoting foreign investment while protecting America’s national security interests, particularly from...more
On February 21, 2025, President Trump issued a memorandum “America First Investment Policy” (the Investment Memo or Memo), in which the President aims to modify the US Government’s approach to inbound and outbound foreign...more
The policy memo aims to preserve an open investment environment as well as restrict investment in strategic sectors. Late on Friday, February 21, 2025, the White House released its “America First Investment Policy”...more
President Donald Trump issued a memorandum on reciprocal trade and tariffs on Feb. 13, 2025, citing the economic and national security threat posed by the trade deficit, as outlined in the Jan. 20, 2025, America First Trade...more
Not waiting for the appointment of a new General Counsel after President Trump’s discharge of both the previous General Counsel and then Acting General and suggesting that his motivation related to the workload of the Agency,...more
During the first week of his second term, President Trump issued a slew of executive orders (EOs) and presidential memorandums that directly target environmental and climate initiatives addressed by previous administrations....more
On January 20, 2025, within a few hours of his return to the White House, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an “America First Trade Policy” memorandum, revealing the initial priorities of his trade agenda. Week one in the...more
On Tuesday, January 26, President Biden signed a memorandum on discriminatory housing practices and policies. The memorandum is one of a series of recent executive actions focused on racial equity, representing the...more
President-Elect Joe Biden has promised to change course, including on a number of the Trump Administration’s signature (de)regulatory and executive actions — from energy and the environment to public health, immigration, and...more
On October 13, 2020, President Trump signed a “Memorandum on Stopping Counterfeit Trafficking on E-commerce Platforms Through Fines and Civil Penalties” to combat trademark counterfeiting by taking aim at the e-commerce...more
In this month's edition, we examine the Swiss data protection authority's comments on the validity of its data-sharing framework with the U.S., as well as the European Data Protection Board's guidance on joint controllers and...more
On Aug. 31, 2020, President Donald Trump issued a Memorandum (the “Memo”) to all secretaries of executive departments and agencies concerning the implementation of Section 6 of Executive Order 13924, Executive Order on...more
The Situation: On August 28, 2020, the IRS published Notice 2020-65 allowing employers to defer withholding the employee portion of Social Security tax from paychecks. This payroll tax deferral is different from the one...more
On August 8, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order to the Secretary of Treasury directing the Department to defer the obligation of employers to withhold, deposit, and pay the employee share of Social Security...more
President Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum on August 8, 2020, directing the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury to use his authority to defer the "withholding, deposit and payment of certain tax obligations." This includes...more
The US Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service have issued guidance with respect to US President Donald Trump’s August 8, 2020 Memorandum on Deferring Payroll Tax Obligations in Light of the Ongoing...more