President Donald Trump’s first executive orders have aggressively targeted the federal bureaucracy, but fully undoing the Biden administration’s “whole-of-government” approach to enforcing its agenda on everything from the climate to racial equity will be a time consuming battle.
Biden administration regulations will need to be unwound in the coming months through a combination of congressional action, legal challenges and rewriting or revoking rules through the slow-moving standard process.
“Final agency rules cannot simply be undone by the president (by Executive Order, for example), but they often indicate that a change-of-rule is coming,” Sarah Parshall Perry, senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Trump’s EO on gender identity, for example, has directed all…
