The Center for Progressive Reform and the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards will host a set of webinars about the impacts of Project 2025 on our nation’s system of regulatory safeguards.
In recent months, Americans have learned about the many ways that Project 2025 would demolish our constitutional system of checks and balances and threaten individual rights and freedoms. So far, though, an important part of this story has not been adequately told: How Project 2025 would continue the decades-long conservative campaign to hobble the federal regulatory system and the critical role that system plays in our democracy and in ensuring a healthy, inclusive economy. The Center and CSS plan to discuss the impacts on numerous issue areas related to the regulatory process that are important to our community.
Our first webinar was held Thursday, September 19 at 1 p.m. Eastern, and focused on provisions in Project 2025 aimed at the more traditional yet pernicious goal of bringing about the “deconstruction” of the regulatory system, including shrinking agency budgets, adding new rulemaking procedures that prevent agencies from carrying out their missions, and outsourcing and privatizing crucial aspects of agency work.
Speakers included:
- James Goodwin, Center for Progressive Reform
- Don Kettl, Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
- Jeremy Symons, Symons Public Affairs and the Environmental Protection Network
- Liz Borkowski, Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health, George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health
- Rachel Weintraub, Coalition for Sensible Safeguards (moderator)
