Recommendations for a People's Regulatory Agenda

Regulations are a critical way for presidents to advance their administration’s policy priorities. Accordingly, for over 40 years, presidents have used the semiannual Regulatory Agenda to announce those priorities to the public. These documents, which are released in the spring and fall each year, provide a comprehensive list of all the regulatory actions agencies are working on and expect to make progress on in the near future.

When the Trump administration releases the first Regulatory Agenda of its second term, it will provide the public with its first glimpse of how aggressively the president will pursue his promised deregulatory agenda. A series of executive orders and memoranda have directed agencies to begin compiling lists of existing rules to repeal or weaken. We can expect the Regulatory Agenda to compile these lists and provide an expected timeline for their completion.

But the public’s priorities are far different. We want sensible safeguards that ensure that companies don’t try to pad their bottom lines by cutting corners on safety or by cheating their customers. We want robust protections against contaminants in our drinking water, dangerous food on store shelves, hazardous workplace conditions, unreasonably risky banking practices that threaten our savings, and other dangers that we cannot protect ourselves against on our own.

By building a People’s Regulatory Agenda, we can make a clear statement about what our priorities are and how they contrast with that of the Trump administration. You can help the Center for Progressive Reform and its partners with this project. Provide your suggestions for what should be included by filling out the form below as best you can.

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What general policy problem do you want the federal government to address? For example, it could be a type of air pollution or a dangerous product.

If known, what agency might have legal authority to address the policy problem?
If known, what statute or statutes might provide the legal authority for addressing the policy problem?
If known, are there any existing federal regulations in place to address the policy problem? If so, one option might be to update or strengthen those regulations to better address the policy problem.
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