The justifications in Trump’s orders seem to be “pushing on a few doors to get around notice and comment procedures just to see which door, if any, the courts allow to open,” Reed Shaw, an attorney with the left-leaning Governing

The report noted a corresponding push in at least 30 mostly Republican-controlled states to weaken workplace protections for children, and warned the second Trump administration would seek to escalate the rollback.

“I think it’s a question that the administration has tried to dance around,” John Lewis, deputy legal director at policy think tank Governing for Impact, told The Hill. “Thus far, it seems to want to have it both ways.” 

“The administration can’t have it both ways,” said Adam Grogg, a former deputy general counsel at OMB and now the legal director at Governing for Impact, a left-of-center think tank. “Either it’s an agency covered by FOIA with the authority to

TRANSITIONS — Governing For Impact is adding Adam Grogg, John Lewis and Elisabeth Mabus. Grogg will be legal director and previously was deputy general counsel at OMB. Lewis will be deputy legal director and previously was a trial attorney for DOJ’s Federal Programs Branch. Mabus

Adam Grogg, former Deputy General Counsel of the Office of Management and Budget, John Lewis, and Elisabeth Mabus join Governing for Impact. WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Governing for Impact (GFI) announces the hire of three new team members who bring a wealth of