The Biden administration is in its waning days, abandoning controversial proposed regulations on transgender athletes and student loan forgiveness.
Did the government decide that these regulations were bad? Did former President Donald Trump's presidential campaign, which defeated Vice President Kamala Harris, get the message across, with Trump's pledge to “keep men out of women's sports”?
No. According to the Associated Press, Biden is repealing these and other regulations “to prevent President Trump from changing them to achieve his own goals.”
“The administration remains supportive of the goals of the proposed regulation,” an administration official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. But whether the administration believes it won't be able to finalize the rule by Jan. 20 because “this process could be lengthy due to the legal considerations and public input required.” In other words, it would be wiser to withdraw the proposal than to bet on Mr. Trump's policies. It will fundamentally change that.
The Associated Press explained:
If the rule has already gone through a public feedback process under the Biden administration, Trump could simply replace it with his own proposal, effectively bypassing the comment period and proceeding directly to enact policy.
On the other hand, if you abandon the rules,
There is nothing to prevent President Trump from pursuing his own regulations on the same issue once he returns to the White House, but he would have to start from scratch, a process that could take months or even years.
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The administration's continued commitment to student loan forgiveness comes on Friday, the very same day that The Associated Press reported on efforts to disrupt regulations, saying the administration announced it would cancel the loans of about 55,000 public employees. proven by facts. Under the 2007 Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, the Department of Education will forgive the remaining $4.28 billion owed by public employees who have paid their student loans for at least 10 years.
PSLF was enacted before President Joe Biden's term in office, but that administration made its own modifications to the program to accomplish its goals independent of Congress.
“The success of the U.S. Department of Education’s transformation of the PSLF program is that with leaders like President Biden and Vice President Harris in place, we will be relentless and unapologetic in ensuring our government serves the people we work with every day. This is proof of what's possible if you focus on what's possible,” the Education Secretary said. Miguel Cardona (emphasis added).
Mr. Cardona noted that his administration has forgiven about $180 billion worth of student loans, allowing about 5 million people to borrow money from taxpayers. This is despite ongoing legal challenges, including a Supreme Court ruling invalidating Biden's first attempt at loan forgiveness and an injunction by two federal judges against a second April proposal. It happened. Rather than give Trump a chance to put his own stamp on it, Biden is seeking to rescind both that proposal and the one from October.
According to the Associated Press:
Kate Shaw, who worked in the White House Office of Counsel under President Barack Obama, said it's not unusual for administrations to speed up or slow rulemaking. It is common for the federal government to rush to finalize regulations during transition periods, but time constraints can make that difficult, she said.
“If you don’t start early enough, you’re never going to finish,” she said.
Unsportsmanlike behavior
Transgender people in sports are an even bigger concern for the Biden administration, an area in which President Trump has been steadfastly opposed.
The administration has extended Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in school sports (itself a federal violation of the Constitution), to sports that consist of students' self-identified gender, regardless of their biological sex. We would like to change the requirement to allow participation in the team. In practice, this means that men almost exclusively compete in sports programs that were previously reserved for women. (That is unlikely, since women have little chance of success in male-only programs.) As a result, women are (a) deprived of opportunities and scholarships to succeed in sports, and (b) There is enough sexuality. (c) being injured by male athletes; and (c) being forced to share locker rooms, bathrooms, and even housing with men.
The proposal would allow sports programs to place limits on the participation of transgender athletes for “certain reasons, such as 'fairness' issues in competition or to reduce the risk of injury,” the Associated Press said. he pointed out.
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Biden's proposal leaves more to be desired on both sides of the issue. Advocates for transgender athletes said it doesn't go far enough to protect transgender students from school policies that could unfairly exclude them. Opponents say it does not go far enough to protect girls or ensure fairness.
Twenty-six Republican state attorneys general managed to persuade a federal judge to block the administration's broad Title IX redefinition from taking effect in their states, but the administration continues to push narrower sports-related redefinitions nationally. I tried to force it. But now President Trump is trying to not only repeal that rule, but also throw it out so that it won't be replaced with one that fits the views of a majority of voters.
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Caroline Leavitt, Trump's nominee for press secretary, told The Associated Press that the administration's rule dumping is all about “adding more red tape and making it more difficult for (Trump) to govern.” It was declared as follows.
Undaunted by their dirty tricks, President Trump will use every power in his power to reverse the damage Biden has done and implement America First policies.
