Vanishing Unified Agenda Keeps the Public in the Dark on Trump’s Deregulatory Priorities

For Immediate Release: August 26, 2025
Contact: David Rosen, drosen@citizen.org

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trump administration is keeping the public in the dark on its deregulatory priorities, the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards said today.

According to press reports, the Trump administration released its Spring 2025 Unified Regulatory Agenda on Friday, August 15th, on the website of the U.S. Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). Yet without any explanation, the Unified Agenda was quickly taken down and has not been re-posted.

By law, the Unified Agenda must be published twice a year, in the fall and spring, and must contain the full list of regulations that government agencies expect to propose or finalize in the next six to twelve months. 

“The Trump administration should immediately publish the Spring Unified Regulatory Agenda, or at the very least provide an explanation as to why it was briefly posted and then removed,” said Rachel Weintraub, executive director of the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards. “The public deserves to know which regulatory protections the Trump administration plans on rolling back that will hurt consumers, workers, our environment, and public health and safety. Refusing to release the Unified Agenda would be unlawful. It also would fuel perceptions that the Trump administration prefers to hide its unpopular deregulatory agenda from the public, part of its broader anti-democratic attacks on public participation in rulemaking.”

While Spring Unified Regulatory Agendas often have been released in the summer rather than the spring, the 2025 edition would be one of the latest, if not the latest, a Spring Unified Regulatory Agenda has ever been released, according to the Congressional Research Service. It is one of the most critical transparency requirements in the regulatory process, because it allows both the public and regulated industries to anticipate and plan for agency actions before they happen.