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As a parting
gift, Trump intentionally kneecapped the Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS), which includes the Center for
Disease Control (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). These agencies have obviously been extremely focused on
fighting COVID-19 and Trump saw that as a perfect way to sneak
in a rule called the SUNSET rule that forces them to do
significant amounts of busy work just to keep basic health and
safety regulations alive.
Sign the petition and demand that
Congress use the Congressional Review Act to throw out this
last-minute rule from the Trump
administration!
The SUNSET rule dictates that
any rule or regulation under the umbrella of HHS that is over
10 years old must be reviewed within the next 5 years.
That's 12,400 different regulations, each extremely
important. It sounds like a good thing until you
realize it's not possible for these agencies on their budgets
to get through this kind of review and the result will be
hundreds, if not thousands, of critical health and safety
regulations that get tossed out and expose people to danger!
Some of the regulations at stake are laws like HIPAA, which
keeps your personal health information private, or certain
food standards that mean we aren't drinking or eating poison
like arsenic.
Health officials are calling this SUNSET
rule a "ticking time bomb." We need to ask Congress to stop it
before it's too late!
Thank you,
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Kelsey
The Care2 Petitions Team
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P.S. Over
12,000 health and safety regulations could disappear in the
U.S. if this stands. Sign now to ask Congress to revoke the SUNSET
rule. |
