21. Department of Commerce · Minor
Consolidate EDA decision-making in the Assistant Secretary's office
Printed page 683 21. Department of Commerce
“Consolidation of decision-making to the Assistant Secretary’s office to better align funding with conservative political purposes.”
What has happened
- Not started
Nothing found. EDA's six regional offices still make investment decisions under the delegations that existed before the window; no Federal Register document, Commerce order or EDA notice consolidates decision-making in the Assistant Secretary's office. EDA's dozen in-window rulemakings are all deregulatory housekeeping — removing the supplementary grant, planning grant, signage and grantee-occupancy regulations, updating grant rates and revolving loan fund rules, and removing the Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms regulations — and none changes who decides.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Rides the trail of #1897 (Abolish the Economic Development Administration, major, attempted).
Negative search: a jq pass over all 22 in-window Federal Register records whose agency is the
Economic Development Administration (each listed in the chapter log); the DOC/EDA slice of
reginfo.gov’s Unified Agenda (twelve RINs, each opened — all PWEDA housekeeping, grant rates,
revolving loan funds and the reauthorization conforming update); Federal Register full text since
2025-01-20 for "regional office" restricted to the Commerce Department slug; and
presidential-actions.ndjson for Economic Development (0).
- Action
- transfer
- Object
- EDA regional office decision-making authority
- ID
- 1898