Democrats in Congress have had months to comb through the archives of late-in-the-game Trump administration regulations and determine which ones to try to overturn using the Congressional Review Act. Under this 1996 legislation, Congress can, with a simple majority vote in both chambers, nullify regulations finalized in the previous 60 legislative days (in practice, this means anything Trump’s agencies finalized after last August).
The deadline for introducing such “resolutions of disapproval,” as they are called, was this past Sunday, April 4. A coalition of advocacy groups identified 28 different notable regulations that would be eligible and desirable for repeal, affecting a host of areas like immigration, the environment, LGBTQ and racial discrimination, critical habitats for wildlife, financial regulation, and long-haul trucking.
In the end, only six resolutions were offered. These resolutions have until May 21 to advance to the president’s desk in order to be eligible for nullification.
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