The withdrawals are being hailed as wins by conservatives, who have submitted comments against the rules, which would have compelled allowing male participation in girls sports, prohibited religious exemptions for birth control coverage, taken federal funding away from pregnancy resource centers, and more.
''On balance, withdrawing these rules is a win for everyone who submitted comments opposing them,'' Ethics and Public Policy Center fellow Rachel Morrison told The Daily Signal. ''It means these bad policy proposals by the Biden administration will not go into effect.''
''It won't require Congress to expend political capital to issue a [Congressional Review Act], it won't take time away from other important things that Congress is doing, and there doesn't need to be litigation by any advocates on these rules,'' Morrison explained, ''which allows them to have time and resources spent towards other things as well.''
The Congressional Review Act allows Congress to invalidate finalized rules at the end of an administration. If the Biden administration had finalized the rules, the Republican-majority Congress would have been able to effectively veto them, and Democrats
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wouldn't have been allowed to submit the same rules in the future.
The Biden administration's intention in withdrawing the rules could be to ensure they can be resubmitted when Democrats regain control of Congress and the presidency.