Independent-agency order centralized rule review and legal interpretation in the White House
The order reached regulators Congress structured with some independence, including parts of financial and communications regulation. Its monetary-policy carveout did not preserve independence for all other Federal Reserve functions.
Entities and roles
- Ensuring Accountability for All Agenciesexecutive action under legal and impact review
- Donald J. Trumppresident who issued the action
Relationships in this file
- Donald J. Trumpasserted White House control throughEnsuring Accountability for All Agencies
Claims and evidence
- analysisreported
Cato's legal analysis describes the order as a major assertion of White House supremacy over independent regulation and notes that presidential and attorney-general legal interpretations would bind executive-branch personnel; it also distinguishes policy arguments for centralized review from unresolved statutory limits on particular agencies.
- Cato Institute: Trump: Independent Agencies Must Submit Regs, Legal Opinions for Our ReviewScope of OIRA review, binding legal interpretations, and competing legal theories
- factdocumented
On 2025-02-18, Donald Trump required independent regulatory agencies to submit significant rules for White House review and coordinate policy and performance with designated White House officials.
Corrects claim:batch-200:independent-agency-white-house-control-2025- The White House: Ensuring Accountability for All AgenciesOperative text of the cited action