The Day One agenda is dependent on the functions of OIRA, an obscure federal agency that acts as a bottleneck for agency rules and regulations.
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Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Surprisingly Good News at the Consumer Product Safety Commission
The Republican outgoing chair cast the deciding vote to have a Democrat temporarily replace her.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Trump Launches Aggressive Poverty Disinformation Campaign
The middle class is starting to look poor, but the president’s Council of Economic Advisers now argues that not even the poor are poor—all the better to cut programs that serve both groups.