Biden Regulatory Freeze May Pause Sunset Rule, Medicare Rebate, Medicaid Line Extension Regs

 
• By Cathy Kelly

Tactic aims to allow incoming Administration to scrutinize so-called ‘midnight rules’ issued in the final days of the Trump Administration before they take effect. Regulators may also solicit stakeholder comments on delayed rules.

Joe Biden, flanked by incoming US First Lady Jill Biden takes the oath of office as the 46th US President on January 20, 2021, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
President Biden's inauguration was cold. Then came the regulatory freeze. • Source: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

The incoming Biden Administration is following tradition by announcing a regulatory freeze on Inauguration Day to pause action on recent Trump Administration regulations in order to consider withdrawing or revising them.

White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain sent a regulatory freeze memo to the heads of executive departments and agencies on 20 January requesting that they “consider” suspending action on any new regulations that the Trump Administration tried to finalize in its last days and confer

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