House Oversight Hearing Underlines Partisan Divide On OSHA Budget, Agenda

An OSHA oversight hearing by a House labor subcommittee highlighted the gulf between Republicans and Democrats on the agency’s regulatory plans and its requested funding for fiscal year 2023, underscoring both continued tensions over the Biden administration’s COVID-19 rules and the high bar any budget increase will face in the current Congress. During the May 25 hearing on “Examining the Policies and Priorities of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration,” hosted by the labor panel’s subcommittee on workforce protection, Democrats...