儿童与家庭管理局发现其 74% 的监管文件已过时，部分可追溯至 1976 年
作者： 艾玛·科尔顿
来源： 福克斯新闻
发布时间： 2026 年 2 月 19 日 美国东部时间上午 10:08
独家报道： 福克斯新闻数字版获悉，负责监督儿童福祉的卫生与公众服务部（HHS）下属机构儿童与家庭管理局（ACF） 已废除数千页监管指南。这些指南早在 1976 年就已被束之高阁，长期未被更新。
儿童与家庭管理局是卫生与公众服务部的机构，通过监督“开端计划”（Head Start）入学准备项目、儿童抚养执行、寄养和收养服务以及管理无人陪伴未成年人等项目，促进儿童及其家庭的经济和社会福祉。
在对整个机构的审查后，该办公室撤销了 35,781 页指导文件，发现其“子监管体系”中有 74% 已过时。这些文件包括技术公告、项目说明、行动传达和“亲爱的同事”信件——通常由联邦机构或国会议员发出，用于向同事通报新指导方针或立法——这些文件在过去 50 年中不断累积。
儿童与家庭管理局强调，被撤销的文件并未被删除，而是与美国卫生与公众服务部网站上记录的当前指导文件清单一起在线存档。
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儿童与家庭管理局在审查后撤销了 35,781 页指导文件，发现其 74% 的“子监管体系”已过时。（Andrew Harnik/Getty Images）
儿童与家庭管理局正式成立于 1991 年，但其起源和工作可追溯到数十年前，继承了早期卫生与公众服务办公室的项目和指导方针——包括可追溯到 1970 年代中期的重大举措。
“特朗普总统的监管改革议程在美国历史上前所未有，”儿童与家庭管理局助理部长亚历克斯·J·亚当斯（Alex J. Adams）在给福克斯新闻数字版的声明中表示。
“ACF 自豪地通过采取众多计划行动中的第一步来推进总统议程，即删除数十年来悄然累积的 36,000 页过时子监管指南，并更清晰地展示剩余的有效指导。本质上，ACF 已将我们的‘监管暗物质’公之于众。”
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被撤销的指导文件包括特定项目文件，例如 1999 年 6 月《儿童与家庭服务计划及最终报告》的提交备忘录、2005 年禽流感指导文件以及 2010 年已停办的能源援助司人员变动通知。
华盛顿特区的美国卫生与公众服务部大楼（Saul Loeb/AFP）
儿童与家庭管理局指示其立法与预算办公室编制一份全面的有效指导文件清单——该机构称这一过程仅用了三周时间来梳理文件。清单包含超过 4,000 份文件，总计约 55,776 页，可追溯至 1976 年。
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每个项目办公室被要求说明是否仍需要这些文件，并在指导文件被认定为过时或必要时提供书面理由。被认定为过时的文件包括与旧资金周期相关的文件、被新规则取代的指导方针、重复法规或与已停办项目相关的文件。
儿童与家庭管理局表示，清理过时指导文件的目标是减少混乱，让拨款接受者能够将资源集中在“为美国儿童和家庭提供实际成果”上，而不是在数万页过时文档中摸索。
这一举措与特朗普政府削减监管、减少所谓“官僚繁文缛节”的更广泛努力相呼应。
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HHS wipes out 36,000 pages of ‘regulatory dark matter’ in sweeping child welfare office purge
Administration for Children and Families found 74% of its regulatory documents were obsolete, some dating back to 1976
By Emma Colton
Fox News
Published February 19, 2026 10:08am EST
EXCLUSIVE: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) overseeing the well-being of children, eliminated thousands of pages of regulatory guidance that had been languishing on the books as far back as 1976, Fox News Digital learned.
The Administration for Children and Families is a Health and Human Services agency charged with promoting the economic and social well-being of kids and their families via overseeing programs such as the Head Start school readiness program, child support enforcement, foster care and adoption services, and managing unaccompanied minors.
The office rescinded 35,781 pages of guidance documents after an agencywide review found 74% of its “sub-regulatory footprint” was obsolete. The documents included technical bulletins, program instructions, action transmittals and dear colleague letters — letters from federal agencies or members of Congress that typically inform colleagues on new guidance or legislation — that had accumulated across the past 50 years.
The Administration for Children and Families emphasized that the rescinded documents were not erased, but instead archived online along with a detailed list of current guidance documented on the Department of Health and Human Services’ website.
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The Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families rescinded 35,781 pages of guidance documents after an agencywide review found 74% of its “sub-regulatory footprint” was obsolete.(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
The Administration for Children and Families officially was established in 1991, but its origins and work stretch back decades, inheriting programs and guidance from earlier Health and Human Services offices — including major initiatives that date to the mid-1970s.
“President Trump’s regulatory reform agenda is unparalleled in U.S. history,”the Administration for Children and Families Assistant Secretary Alex J. Adams said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“ACF is proud to do our part to advance the President’s agenda by taking the first of many planned actions, namely removing 36,000 pages of obsolete sub-regulatory guidance that had quietly accumulated over decades and shining a brighter spotlight on what remains,” he added. “In essence, ACF has brought our regulatory dark matter to light.”
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The rescinded guidance included program-specific documents such as a memo on filing the June 1999 Child and Family Services Plan and Final Report, 2005 avian flu guidance and a 2010 staffing-change notice for the now-defunct Division of Energy Assistance.
The US Department of Health and Human Services building is shown in Washington, D.C.(Saul Loeb/AFP)
The Administration for Children and Families directed its Office of Legislation and Budget to compile a comprehensive list of guidance documents considered active — a process that took three weeks just to catalog the files, the agency said. The inventory produced more than 4,000 documents totaling about 55,776 pages, dating back to 1976.
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Each program office was required to justify whether the individual documents were still needed, and ordered to provide written rationale if guidance was deemed obsolete or necessary. Obsolete documents were considered ones that related to old funding cycles, guidance superseded by newer rules, duplicate statutes or documents related to programs that no longer list, Fox News Digital learned.
US President Donald Trump, right, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., US secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025.(Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The Administration for Children and Families said the goal of cleaning up the office with outdated guidance is to reduce confusion and allow grant recipients to focus resources on “delivering outcomes for American children and families,” rather than navigating tens of thousands of pages of outdated documentation.
The move aligns with the Trump administration’s broader push to pare back regulations and cut what it calls bureaucratic red tape.
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The Federal Communications Commission, for example, took a hatchet to outdated policies in a sweeping deregulation effort in 2025, including doing away with outdated guidance on the use of telegraphs, rabbit-ear TV receivers and phone booth rules in July 2025.
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