On May 1, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that it will pause enforcement of the 2024 Employee or Independent Contractor Classification Under the Fair Labor Standards Act final rule in current enforcement matters while the agency reviews this regulation.

On May 5, as a part of the America at Work tour, U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer and U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani, R-Ariz., visited an ABC member jobsite and participated in an Arizona Builders Alliance-led roundtable discussion in Tucson, Arizona.

ABC’s Free Enterprise Alliance has launched an issue advocacy campaign in Missouri, Kansas, Ohio and the Washington, D.C. metro area to educate elected officials and the public on Sen. Josh Hawley’s, R-Mo., Pro-Worker Framework for the 119th Congress that includes sections of the ABC-opposed Protecting the Right to Organize Act and the Warehouse Worker Protection Act.

The U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy, the watchdog for small businesses in the regulatory process, recently launched the Red Tape Hotline.

On April 23, ABC urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to streamline the federal permitting process under the Clean Water Act while protecting America’s navigable waters from pollution in comments submitted as part of the Waters Advocacy Coalition.

On April 23, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at overhauling federal workforce development efforts.

On April 23, the U.S. Department of the Interior issued alternative permitting processes in response to President Donald Trump’s prior declaration of a National Energy Emergency, with the goal of reducing the federal permitting process for covered energy projects to no more than 28 days.

On April 15, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14275, Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement, directing significant revisions to the Federal Acquisition Regulations System with the goal of simplifying and streamlining federal procurement. The White House released an accompanying fact sheet and press release with the order.

On March 27, the U.S. Department of Justice launched the Anticompetitive Regulations Task Force to advocate for the elimination of anticompetitive state and federal laws and regulations that undermine free market competition and harm consumers, workers and businesses.

On March 21, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network announced it is issuing an interim final rule that removes the beneficial ownership information reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act for U.S. companies and persons.