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Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA’s Office of Research and Development — Villain or Victim?

On July 18, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rolled out the “reorganization plan” for its Office of Research and Development (ORD). The stated goal of the plan is to reduce budget expenditures, improve...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Congress reduces CFPB’s budget request cap following passage of reconciliation bill

On July 3, the House of Representatives passed H.R.1, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” to reduce the cap on amounts the CFPB can request from the Fed to fund its operations from 12 percent to 6.5 percent of the Fed’s total...more

Holland & Knight LLP

CFPB Budget Cuts Blocked by Senate Parliamentarian

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Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled that the Trump Administration and congressional Republicans cannot use the pending budget reconciliation bill to eliminate funding to the CFPB in a June 23, 2025,...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

President Trump’s Budget Goes To Work Against Enforcement Agencies with Significant Cuts to DOL and NLRB

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President Trump’s proposed budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 includes substantial reductions to the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) budget and staff.  The proposed discretionary budget is slashed from $13.5 billion to $9...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Trump Budget Plan Proposes Big Cuts to OSHA, Lowering Head Count and Limiting Enforcement Capabilities

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The Trump Administration’s fiscal year 2026 budget proposal includes big cuts for OSHA. The Fiscal Year 2026 Congressional Budget Justification is available...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

NAIC Responds to Proposed 10-Year Moratorium on State Regulation of AI in One Big Beautiful Bill Act

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There is a proposed 10-year moratorium on the enforcement of state laws that regulate artificial intelligence (AI) contained in Section 43201(c) of H.R.1 – One Big Beautiful Bill Act. ...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

State Lawmakers Oppose Proposed 10 Year Freeze on AI Laws + Regulations

On June 3, 2025, a bipartisan group of 260 state lawmakers sent a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives and the U. S. Senate expressing “strong opposition to the provision in Subtitle C, Part 2 of the tax and budget...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

President’s FY 2026 Budget Requests Would Eliminate CSB, Reorganize CPSC

President Trump’s fiscal year (FY) 2026 budget request for the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) states that the President’s budget proposes to eliminate funding for CSB as part of the Trump...more

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Filling in More Puzzle Pieces with HHS’s Newly Released Budget Documents

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McDermott+ is pleased to bring you Regs & Eggs, a weekly Regulatory Affairs blog by Jeffrey Davis. Click here to subscribe to future blog posts. June 5, 2025 – On May 30, 2025, the US Department of Health and Human Services...more

Cozen O'Connor

Cozen Currents: The Certainty and Uncertainty of Trump Walking It Back

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“While the financial markets have become comfortable with dismissing the tail risks associated with the president’s boldest policy proposals, President Trump has successfully enacted ambitious policy proposals, albeit perhaps...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Five FDA Takeaways from the FY26 Budget

On May 30, 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services released additional information regarding the Trump administration’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget request. The release of these FY26 budget materials is timely as...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

White House Proposes $2.5 Billion Cut to IRS Budget for FY2026

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The Trump administration is continuing its offensive against the Internal Revenue Service by proposing a $2.5 billion cut to the agency’s budget for FY2026. In the White House’s “skinny budget” released on May 2, the IRS’s...more

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The Missing Puzzle Pieces of the FY 2026 “Skinny” President’s Budget

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Last week, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its fiscal year (FY) 2026 discretionary funding request to Congress on its President’s Budget webpage. The administration released a “skinny” FY 2026...more

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Leaked Budget Proposal Suggests Major Restructuring of Federal Health and Safety Agencies, Including the Consumer Product Safety...

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A recently leaked and apparently genuine Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Budget “Passback” memorandum—the OMB’s official feedback mechanism for budget submissions from federal agencies—signals major changes to the...more

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The Leaked OMB Passback Document: What It Is and Isn’t

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Last week, a sensitive internal government document was leaked to the public: the White House Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB’s) passback to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) laying out proposed...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

What Happens When Agency Administrators Don't Support the Agency's Statutory Mission?

I’ve always taken the position that, no matter how much I disagree with the President, the Senate should confirm his executive branch nominees (nominations to the Judicial Branch are different, since judges don’t work for the...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

President Trump Issues Executive Order Asserting Greater Control Over Independent Agencies

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The order requires “so-called independent regulatory agencies” to align their proposed regulations, legal interpretations, expenditures, and priorities with the White House....more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Vought’s Transformational First Few Days at the CFPB

Within approximately 48 hours, starting on the evening of Friday, February 7, 2025, the trajectory of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was significantly altered. Among other things, a new acting director was...more

McGlinchey Stafford

CFPB Under Trump: Internal and External Threats Continue to Mount

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A new acting director. Freezes on any rulemaking, enforcement, or supervisory activities. Attempts to dismantle the department from within. In the span of a short forty-eight hours, the CFPB has faced possibly the greatest...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

New Executive Order Directs Federal Agencies to Trim The Fat

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Seyfarth Synopsis: President Trump’s executive order directs all federal agencies to point out where they can be trimmed down to meet his proposed budget. On Monday, March 13, President Trump signed Executive Order 13781...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

Trump’s Budget Blueprint Sets Regulatory Posture

The Trump administration has published its budgetary Blueprint. The Blueprint notes the 2018 Budget is being unveiled sequentially in that the Blueprint provides details only on discretionary funding proposals. The full...more

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