“There is no question that an extended shutdown will harm the administration’s regulatory reform agenda,” Dan Byers, vice president for policy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Energy Institute, said in a statement. “They faced a challenging clock to begin with, so a delay of even just a few weeks could significantly impact their ability to advance rulemakings in a timely manner.”
To some Trump critics, those delays are the shutdown’s bright silver lining.
“Since most of the regulatory activity that EPA is doing is of the deregulatory nature, to me, that’s great for the health and the environment,” said Mike Mikulka, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Chapter 704, which represents EPA employees in the Midwest. He is also a spokesperson for a union-backed campaign called Save the EPA.
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