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Roger Severino

xxi Authors, in the Mandate (2023)

“Roger Severino is Vice President of Domestic Policy at The Heritage Foundation. As director of the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from 2017 to 2021, he led a team of more than 250 staff enforcing civil rights, conscience, and health information privacy laws. Roger subsequently founded the HHS Accountability Project at the Ethics & Public Policy Center. He holds a JD from Harvard Law School, an MA in public policy from Carnegie Mellon University, and a BA from the University of Southern California.”

In government

No executive-branch post found in a search on Aug 27, 2026. Senate nominations and White House appointments watched since, through Oct 16, 2026.

Bylined chapters

Major recommendations in those chapters

  1. Have Congress clearly define and limit the CDC's legal authorities Needs Congress Not started
  2. Split the CDC into two separate agencies Needs Congress Not started
  3. Create a national epidemiological agency required by law to publish all data Needs Congress Not started
  4. Prohibit research using aborted fetal cells and baby body parts Needs Congress Partially done
  5. Withdraw FDA approval of chemical abortion drugs Attempted
  6. Block grant the NIH grants budget to the states Needs Congress Not started
  7. Abolish the NIH Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Partially done
  8. Make Medicare Advantage the default enrollment option Needs Congress Not started
  9. Replace Medicare fee-for-service with value-based payments Needs Congress Attempted
  10. Repeal the Medicare Shared Savings Program and the Inflation Reduction Act Needs Congress Not started
  11. Repeal the Medicare drug price negotiation program Needs Congress Not started
  12. Reform Medicaid financing with block grants or per capita caps Needs Congress Not started
  13. Add work requirements to Medicaid Done
  14. Issue guidance that states may defund Planned Parenthood in Medicaid Partially done
  15. Permanently codify the Hyde and Weldon amendments Needs Congress Not started
  16. Reverse the redefinition of sex across HHS and CMS programs Partially done
  17. Announce nonenforcement of the CMS COVID-19 vaccine mandate Not started
  18. Eliminate the Head Start program and the Office of Head Start Needs Congress Not started
  19. Restore Trump religious and moral exemptions to the contraceptive mandate Not started
  20. Rescind the Biden Title X rule and reinstate the Trump Title X rule Attempted
  21. Restore the Trump-era Section 1557 and Section 504 OCR regulations Partially done

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