Published July 14, 2025
On July 14, 2025, EPPC Scholar Eric Kniffin submitted a public comment in response to HHS’s request for information (RFI) “Ensuring Lawful Regulation and Unleashing Innovation to Make America Healthy Again.”
HHS’s RFI seeks the public’s help to further HHS’s efforts to “implement the President’s Deregulatory Initiatives, including Department of Government Efficiency Deregulatory Agenda, and to better promote the health and well-being of the American people.” HHS specifically requested input “from all interested parties on how to dramatically deregulate across all areas the Department touches.
The scholar’s comment begins by thanking HHS and the Trump administration more broadly for its efforts to stop and reverse harmful and unlawful Biden administration regulatory actions. The comment begins by describing the work of EPPC’s Administrative State Accountability Project (ASAP) and encouraging HHS to review the project’s webpage, which collects ASAP scholars’ public comments, meetings with government officials, and related media commentary. The comment also points to an amicus brief and article written by ASAP scholars that provide a narrative overview of Biden administration actions.
The remainder of the comment summarizes eight actions by the Biden administration that ASAP scholars “believe are particularly detrimental to the common good” and provides detailed reasons why each should be rescinded. The scholar’s comment also identifies which rules are the subject of ongoing litigation and encourages the administration to consider whether it should concede in court that these regulations are unlawful.
Other legal, medical, religious, and policy organizations also submitted comments in response to the RFI, including:
Eric Kniffin is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he works on a range of initiatives to protect and strengthen religious liberty as part of EPPC’s Administrative State Accountability Project.
