Evidently Biden is planning to turn OMB/OIRA into a worker, consumer and privacy protections shredder.

You don't put Amazon, Lyft and Airbnb on your OMB transition team unless that's the plan -- or you're so oblivious that you don't care if it's theirs.

Bridget Dooling is an anti-regulatory hack from the Koch financed RSC at GWU.

She wants expanded cost-benefit analysis, wants to force independent agencies to negotiate with OIRA, and her big complaint about the Trump shutdown was that it was stalling deregulation.

Awful!

None of the other members of Biden's OMB transition team appear to have significant expertise or material interest in regulation. They're budget people.

So it's safe to assume based on the ones that do that Biden is gearing up to run a harshly anti-regulatory administration.

I've said this before and I'll say it again:

Even if Dems win both GA Senate races, Manchin will fight to keep the filibuster.

That means regulation, enforcement and executive power are the ENTIRE domestic policy ballgame outside of the annual spending bills and COVID relief.

This transition team is a setup for an administration with a aggressive anti-regulatory posture and handing over the reins to corporate lobbyists.

It's hard to see how Democrats hang on to the White House in 2024 by shutting down their only remaining avenue for accomplishments.