Trump Axes Expert Panels at Historic Clip: The Brief

IN THE BIGGEST PURGE of nonpartisan regulatory advice in decades, the Trump administration has cut some 160 expert advisory committees across the US government — almost a third of them over the recommendations of the federal agencies that oversee them, Robert Iafolla, Andrew Wallender and Austin Ramsey report.

• The depth of the effort is detailed in a database maintained by the General Services Administration and analyzed by Bloomberg Law. About 15% of advisory boards across the government have been formally terminated through the most recent fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, preliminary data shows. The year includes about 3 1/2 ...