Biden admin­is­tra­tion rule­mak­ing blitzes aim to Trump-proof the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment

Hav­ing with­drawn from his reelec­tion bid and acknowl­edged the pos­si­bil­i­ty that for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump may suc­ceed him, Pres­i­dent Joe Biden has worked with Democ­rats and his fed­er­al agen­cies to lock in a lega­cy that won’t be easy for Trump to erase. From pump­ing out reg­u­la­tions to insu­lat­ing gov­ern­ment sci­en­tists to enshrin­ing for­eign pol­i­cy com­mit­ments, the Biden admin­is­tra­tion is leav­ing behind poli­cies that will be pro­ce­du­ral­ly dif­fi­cult or polit­i­cal­ly cost­ly to aban­don. In this series, the Was …