The Supreme Court has given the Trump administration some powerful tools to scale back control of the federal government, said the co-leader of the president-elect’s new regulatory efficiency panel.
Vivek Ramaswamy, whom Donald Trump has selected to helm the so-called Department of Government Efficiency alongside Tesla CEO Elon Musk, cited the high court’s recent decisions to the end Chevron doctrine, which for 40 years had given agencies leeway to interpret ambiguous federal laws, and re-contour the major questions doctrine, which bars regulators from addressing politically and economically significant issues without express permission from Congress.
“Overturning Chevron deference, combined with the Major Questions Doctrine codified in West Virginia vs EPA, paves the way for not a slight but a *drastic* reduction in the scope of the federal regulatory state,” Ramaswamy posted Sunday on the social media site X. “It’s coming.”
His post cited data to demonstrate that in the thousands of cases in which the courts have exercised Chevron deference, agencies overwhelmingly won. Those statistics include rules promulgated by agencies like EPA under Republican presidents.
