Trump’s OIRA-Nominee Has Questioned Foundations Of Administrative State
Fr0m: Inside Health Policy
Nicholas Florko
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Rao will now have oversight over Trump’s regulatory budgeting, Bruce Levinson, senior vice president of regulatory intervention at the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness, noted to IHP.
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Levinson pointed to two tools that Rao could use to rein in agencies: the Data Quality Act and the Paperwork Reduction Act. However, Levinson cautioned that there must be substantive basis for their use. “With the Paperwork Reduction Act, with the Data Quality Act, these are not tools for arbitrary and capricious decisions — just the opposite,” Levinson told IHP.
