The phrase "administration overreacted" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a situation where the administration's response is perceived as excessive or disproportionate to the circumstances.
Example: "Many believe that the administration overreacted to the protests, implementing measures that were too harsh."
Alternatives: "the administration responded excessively" or "the administration reacted disproportionately."
Has the Obama administration overreacted?
"The administration overreacted to Medvedev's comments," said David J. Kramer, a trans-Atlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund.
Some American officials have also said they believe the administration overreacted, in large part because of the political fallout from the attack last year on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the American ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens.
In response, the Obama administration overreacted by sharply restricting federal spending on conferences and creating an elaborate, expensive bureaucratic process for government employees to get permission to attend a conference, workshop or other professional meetings.
One group says the administration is overreacting to an atomic threat that is all but nonexistent.
The ban, which applies to exports from all 15 countries of the European Union, prompted some European officials to complain that the Bush administration was overreacting.
This year's more muted criticism drew expressions of concern from human rights groups, which questioned whether the Clinton Administration was overreacting to minor improvements in the rights situation in China in the hope of removing the issue as an obstacle to improved diplomatic and trade relations.
WikiLeaks said the Obama administration was overreacting.
The Western diplomat recalled advising the U.S. Administration not to overreact; when John Kelly declared, last April, that a leftist government in Mexico would "not be good for America or for Mexico," López Obrador's poll ratings shot up.
"The government is overreacting.
Mr. Obama tried to set the record straight, describing the firing of Ms. Sherrod on bogus accusations of racism as a "phony controversy," and admitting that some in his administration were among the many who "overreacted".
