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IRS Leadership Turmoil Continues With Appointment of Yet Another Acting Chief Counsel While Chief of Appeals Announces Retirement

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The Internal Revenue Service continues to experience significant leadership transition during a period of ongoing internal upheaval and uncertainty. The latest developments are the appointment of Kenneth Kies as the new...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

DEA Judge Overseeing Rescheduling Process Retires, Further Casting Doubt on the Likelihood of Any Change in the Near Term

We’ve written before that with rescheduling, with all of the excitement and pomp and circumstance that came with its announcement in the last year of the Biden administration, the whole thing was beginning to look like it may...more

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What Ever Happened to the Ban on Covenants Not to Compete?

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Question: Last year we heard that the Federal Trade Commission was going to ban covenants not to compete. It was a big deal at the time. Nothing has been said about this in months. Is this still going to happen? If so, when? ...more

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

Can the Labor Board Finally Get to Work?

On June 16, 2025 President Trump announced two key nominations to the National Labor Relations Board: Scott Mayer and James Murphy. If confirmed, Mayer and Murphy will join Chairman Marvin Kaplan (Republican; term ends...more

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Independent Fed Inspector General assigned to CFPB investigating administration’s actions at the CFPB

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The independent Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Federal Reserve System (FRS) and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is investigating the bureau’s workforce reductions and its canceled contracts, according...more

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“Knowledge itself is power”: Foley Hoag Tracking President Trump’s Unprecedented Use of Executive Orders

In the first six months of his second term, President Donald Trump has set a new benchmark for the use of executive orders, proclamations and emergency declarations, surpassing all previous presidents since Franklin D....more

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Guidance for Employers on Preparing for and Responding to ICE or Other Law Enforcement in the Workplace

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As media across the country report a significant rise of immigration enforcement activities under the new Trump Administration, it is imperative that employers establish policies and protocols for responding to possible...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Eliminating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Medicaid (Trump EO Tracker)

This memorandum directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to take appropriate action to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicaid, including by ensuring Medicaid payments rates are not higher than Medicare....more

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Policy Week in Review – June 2025

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U.S. Department of Labor Expands Opinion Letter Program  - In an effort to increase official guidance and provide compliance assistance to the regulated community, the U.S. Department of Labor expanded its opinion letter...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

‘I Really Wanted to Stay’: Amid Success, Regrets, OHRP’s Kaneshiro Hopes Agency Will Be Rebuilt

When Jerry Menikoff retired at the end of 2022 after leading the HHS Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) for 14 years, he left behind an agency limping along with 20 employees, less than half of what it needed. For...more

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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

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens (Trump EO Tracker)

Orders the Attorney General shall take all appropriate action to create a mechanism to provide legal resources and indemnification to law enforcement officers who unjustly incur expenses and liabilities for actions taken...more

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GAO agrees to investigate attempted CFPB firings, other recent bureau actions

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The Government Accountability Office has agreed to investigate recent CFPB moves to fire more than 1,400 employees and the impact it and other agency actions have had on the bureau’s ability to operate....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Trump DEI Executive Orders – Impacts on Small Businesses and Small Business Subcontracting

On January 20 and 21, 2025, President Trump signed two executive orders focused on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs: EO 14151, “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing” and EO...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Appointed as Acting CFPB Director

On January 31, 2025, the CFPB announced President Donal Trump had appointed Scott Bessent as Acting Director of the CFPB. In a brief statement, Bessent expressed his commitment to advancing the administration’s agenda to...more

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Special Report - Peering Into the Crystal Ball: Crypto Enforcement in a Second Trump Term

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In November 2021, at the height of cryptocurrency’s “bull run,” the market capitalization for crypto reached a record of nearly $3 trillion. Just a year later, and shortly after FTX petitioned for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...more

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The CFPB in 2025: What to Expect Following the Election

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2024 has been an eventful year for the CFPB. As we detailed in June, the CFPB survived its second constitutional challenge at the Supreme Court in CFSA v. CFPB, and “[n]ewly emboldened, the CFPB’s already robust policy agenda...more

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