Democracy Monitor

Monitoring democratic institutions through public records

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Independent Agency Rules

Some government agencies (like the FDA or EPA) are supposed to make decisions based on science and law, not politics. Can the President control what rules they write?

Independent agencies answer to law rather than to the White House; capture them once, and they answer to every future White House. Why this matters →

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