Leave technology winners to the private sector
What the document says“It is the role of the private sector, not the government, to pick winners and losers in technology development.”
The chapter adds that if a technology underperforms the private sector should bear the liability rather than the government, and that the department's role is to oversee testing and deployment so that communities and individuals can choose what fits them.
What the document actually says“It is the role of the private sector, not the government, to pick winners and losers in technology development.”
Firms should pick which one wins. That is not a job for government.
New transport technology is being tested. The book says government should not choose which kind wins. Firms should take that risk.
Reducing Anti-Competitive Regulatory Barriers
2025-04-09 · 90 FR 15629
Executive Order 14267 of April 9, 2025 opens with the statement that federal regulations should not predetermine economic winners and losers, and directs every agency head, including at the Transportation Department, to review all regulations under their rulemaking authority with the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission and the Attorney General and identify those that create monopolies, raise barriers to entry, or otherwise limit competition, with a view to rescinding them. It adopts the chapter's premise and turns it into a concrete review. The fit breaks down because it acts on regulations that restrict competition between firms and does not reach the government backing particular technologies through funding or promotion, and it says nothing about who bears the liability when a technology underperforms or about the department's role in overseeing testing and deployment.
The order says rules should not pick winners. That is the chapter's own view. Agencies must find rules that block new firms. But it reaches rules, not money the government spends on a technology. It says nothing about blame when a technology fails.
10 agency rules
- Requiring Online Submission of Applications for and Renewals of DEA Registration: Technical CorrectionJustice Department, Drug Enforcement Administration · October 2, 2025
- Controlled Substances Ordering System (CSOS) ModernizationJustice Department, Drug Enforcement Administration · October 2, 2025
- Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Calendar Year 2026 Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS) Rate Update; Requirements for the HH Quality Reporting Program and the HH Value-Based Purchasing Expanded Model; Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies (DMEPOS) Competitive Bidding Program Updates; DMEPOS Accreditation Requirements; Provider Enrollment; and Other Medicare and Medicaid PoliciesHealth and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · December 2, 2025
- Fourth Temporary Extension of COVID-19 Telemedicine Flexibilities for Prescription of Controlled MedicationsJustice Department, Drug Enforcement Administration, Health and Human Services Department · December 31, 2025
- Regulatory Guidance Relating to the Criteria and Process for Initial Recognition of an Accrediting AgencyEducation Department · February 27, 2026
- Ordering Schedule I and II Controlled Substances Using DEA Form 222; Technical AmendmentsJustice Department, Drug Enforcement Administration · March 20, 2026
- Medicare Program; Contract Year 2027 and Certain Contract Year 2026 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage Program, Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program, and Medicare Cost Plan ProgramHealth and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · April 6, 2026
- Exceptions From Foreign Ownership, Control, or DominationNuclear Regulatory Commission · April 23, 2026
- Authority of Drug Enforcement Administration Supervisory Diversion Investigators, Field Intelligence Managers, and Intelligence Group Supervisors To Sign and Issue Administrative SubpoenasJustice Department · May 21, 2026
- Exemptions From Materials LicensingNuclear Regulatory Commission · October 5, 2026
Each of these names the order above in its own summary, preamble or filing. That is a fact about the document, not a finding that it carries out this proposal: it is one step further away than the order is, and what it does about the proposal is a reading nobody has made here.