His continued presence in the administration weakens its credibility.
But Mr. Morath said that if the administration weakened the schools, it risked losing the last remnant of middle-class confidence in the district.
While the Bush administration weakened rules proposed under President Bill Clinton, the new regime still gives patients more rights than they had before, including access to their own records and some restrictions on how widely they can be shared.
But the administration weakened the enforcement arm of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development and did not do enough to reform the Buildings Department or the city's outdated building code, Dr. Schill said.
Instead, they have been forced to negotiate a thicket of conflicting policy statements from an administration weakened in its cadre of foreign policy professionals and suffering from turnover in senior leadership.
California has threatened to press ahead on its own if the administration weakens the federal targets significantly, prompting some automakers to lobby for the current standards to mainly be kept.
In describing the country's vulnerability in the face of terrorism, Mr. Bamford repeatedly notes that budget cutbacks during the Clinton administration weakened the country's intelligence agencies, and he writes that the now famous Aug. 6, 2001, President's Daily Brief -- titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S". -- seemed "to have made little impression" on Mr. Bush.
That promise would be difficult, if not impossible, to keep if the Trump administration weakens or eliminates the mandate on its own, before a new health care system is in place. .
In September, however, the Trump administration proposed weakening standards for repairing methane leaks in drilling operations.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York, said the Bush administration was "weakening important protections for our most vulnerable citizens".
