Biden in­sti­tutes reg­u­la­to­ry freeze on first day of pres­i­den­cy

New­ly in­au­gu­rat­ed Pres­i­dent Joe Biden wast­ed lit­tle time in act­ing to halt for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s “mid­night reg­u­la­tions” and to re­voke some of his pre­de­ces­sor’s con­tro­ver­sial dereg­u­la­to­ry or­ders in his first day in of­fice.

Biden’s “reg­u­la­to­ry freeze” mem­o­ran­dum will like­ly im­pact sev­er­al moves by the HHSin the fi­nal days and weeks of the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion that im­pact the FDA, ei­ther by with­draw­ing or de­lay­ing the im­ple­men­ta­tion of the ac­tions.

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