Published May 12, 2025
On May 12, 2025, EPPC scholars Eric Kniffin and Natalie Dodson submitted a public comment responding to an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Request for Information (RFI) “solicit[ing] ideas for deregulation” on “any and all regulations currently in effect.”
The EPPC scholars explained in their comment:
Since 2021 our project has focused on regulations from HHS and other federal agencies that promote abortion, gender ideology, and other causes that were priorities for the Biden administration but not for the American people and their representatives in Congress.
… [EPPC’s Adminstrative State Accountability Project] has continued to submit public comments in the months since President Trump took office. These comments have generally brought to the administration’s attention aspects of Biden administration proposals that are contrary to the President’s stated policy goals and executive orders.
… We encourage OMB to rescind the agency actions identified above and for the administration to take whatever steps it deems necessary to protect the American people from regulatory overreach.
The scholars identified ten regulations from the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that they believed were particularly harmful to the public good by promoting abortion and gender ideology, or restricting religious freedom and conscience rights. They also referred OMB to EPPC scholars’ amicus briefs and media commentary collecting examples of additional misguided regulations.
Other organizations submitting comments on the RFI include:
- Advancing American Freedom
- Alliance Defending Freedom
- Americans United for Life
- Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
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.
