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President Trump issued a new executive order on February 19 directing all federal agency heads to complete a comprehensive review of every regulation under their jurisdiction within 60 days, in coordination with their embedded DOGE Team Leads and OMB Director Russell Vought, to identify rules for rescission or modification. The order extended the administration's 10-to-1 deregulation mandate - requiring agencies to identify at least ten regulations for elimination for each new rule proposed - and formally extended OIRA's oversight authority to independent regulatory agencies that had previously operated outside White House review, including the SEC, FCC, FTC, and CFPB.
The executive order accelerated OIRA's deregulatory review timeline from 120 days to 28 days for deregulatory actions backed by factual records, and established a presumptive 14-day maximum for rules the administration characterized as "facially unlawful." The order required agency heads to consult with their DOGE Team Leads before initiating any new rulemaking, formally institutionalizing the embedded DOGE consultants that OMB Director Vought had described in Congressional testimony as a permanent feature of agency leadership structures.
The extension of OIRA oversight to independent agencies was a significant constitutional step. Independent agencies - historically insulated from direct White House control by their statutory structures - were now required to submit proposed regulations to OIRA for review, giving the White House direct editorial authority over the regulatory output of bodies Congress had deliberately designed to be independent of presidential pressure. Legal analysts noted this represented the culmination of a decades-long conservative legal movement goal, particularly associated with the Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, to eliminate the practical independence of regulatory agencies from political control. Critics warned the combination of embedded DOGE consultants, OIRA extension, and the 10-to-1 deregulation ratio created a structural apparatus for regulatory capture that would survive individual administrations as an embedded institutional precedent.