U.S. Department of Homeland Security building in Washington, D.C.
In the early months of the Trump administration, federal agencies embarked on their new deregulation drive by delaying several rules finalized in the waning months of President Barack Obama’s term. A year later, that approach has cost the federal government in at least one case.
On July 13, a federal judge in Washington ordered the government pay $100,000 in attorney fees to venture capital advocates who had successfully challenged the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to delay an Obama-era rule allowing foreign entrepreneurs to enter the United States without a visa or green card. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia had granted summary judgment in December to those advocates, in a decision that sided with their argument that DHS violated the Administrative Procedure Act by not taking comments before delaying the rule.
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