Obama Left Over 800 Proposed Regulations on Table — Guess What Trump Just Did to Every Last One of Them
BY JASON HOWERTON
A DAY AGO
When President Donald Trump took office, there were over 800 proposed regulations left over by his predecessor. On Thursday, the White House announced it had withdrawn every single one of them in an effort to chip away at the burden of government regulations.
The Trump administration said former President Barack Obama’s administration left 469 planned actions and 391 proposed “regulatory proceedings,” according to Reuters.
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney put it like this: the Trump administration is killing the “slow cancer that can come from regulatory burdens that we put on our people."
Reuters has more details on the Trump administration’s regulation-killing rampage:
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President Trump made it one of his first promises to cut down on burdensome government regulations. He even signed an executive order establishing “regulatory reform” task forces within federal agencies.
Reuters described Trump's decision as “the most far-reaching effort to pare back U.S. red tape in recent decades.”
BY JASON HOWERTONA DAY AGO
When President Donald Trump took office, there were over 800 proposed regulations left over by his predecessor. On Thursday, the White House announced it had withdrawn every single one of them in an effort to chip away at the burden of government regulations.
The Trump administration said former President Barack Obama’s administration left 469 planned actions and 391 proposed “regulatory proceedings,” according to Reuters.
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney put it like this: the Trump administration is killing the “slow cancer that can come from regulatory burdens that we put on our people."
Reuters has more details on the Trump administration’s regulation-killing rampage:
The steps to eliminate regulations makes good on a much-repeated Trump campaign promise to promote business-friendly policies. Investors have anticipated the action, helping to push share prices higher on hopes that fewer regulations will boost business growth and lead to higher corporate profits.
The Trump administration has identified nearly 300 regulations related to energy production and environmental protection it plans to rescind, review or delay across three agencies – the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior and Energy Departments.
Trump had identified several of the regulations as targets in his March executive orders on energy, but they will now undergo a formal rulemaking process to be rescinded or revised.
The Trump administration has identified nearly 300 regulations related to energy production and environmental protection it plans to rescind, review or delay across three agencies – the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior and Energy Departments.
Trump had identified several of the regulations as targets in his March executive orders on energy, but they will now undergo a formal rulemaking process to be rescinded or revised.
President Trump made it one of his first promises to cut down on burdensome government regulations. He even signed an executive order establishing “regulatory reform” task forces within federal agencies.
Reuters described Trump's decision as “the most far-reaching effort to pare back U.S. red tape in recent decades.”
