Regulatory Agencies
The President’s choice of a former Obama administration official to serve as the top policy director at the Department of Labor signals the advent of a progressive regulatory agenda.
Currently serving as a Senior Advisor, Rajesh Nayak was nominated by Biden on April 23 to serve as Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Labor, where, if confirmed, he would help develop and advance policymaking priorities of the Biden administration’s DOL, including regulatory rulemaking efforts.
One apparent area of interest to Nayak is modernizing the regulatory rulemaking process and pushing for more progressive regulation. In an April 2020 report, “OIRA 2.0: How Regulatory Review Can Help Respond to Existential Threats” for the Great Democracy Initiative that Nayak coauthored with Todd Tucker of the Roosevelt Institute, and in a follow-up piece in