Trump’s slash-and-burn agenda for regulations hits new high

President Donald Trump’s effort to help the American economy, specifically the American taxpayers, has taken to new heights his anti-regulation agenda from his first term.

Then, he promised to remove two rules for every new one imposed by the government. Actually, commentator Paul Bedard in the Washington Examiner confirmed he reached the plateau of eliminating four rules for every new one.

Now that’s in the distance past.

“With little fanfare, the Trump administration has gone on a regulation-cutting binge, eliminating Biden- and Obama-era rules while slashing the bureaucracy built to impose costly restrictions on Wall Street and Main Street,” the report said.

“Early indications from a key regulation watcher confirm that President Donald Trump is not just making good on a campaign promise to cut 10 regulations for every new one his team proposes, but has also paused issuing new regulations.”

The confirmation comes from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which monitors that paperwork and its impact on American industry, American consumers, American business.

Clyde Wayne Crews, a spokesman, now is calling it the “Unrule.”

“What we’re witnessing is the rise of the ‘Unrule,’ a revolt against the machinery of the administrative state.”

He shared with Bedard that some of the new “rules” that are appearing actually are “reversals, delays, withdrawals” of previously created mandates.

That, he said, is “a government-wide recognition that certain, perhaps most, regulations are not merely unjustified but actively harmful.”

Some are huge, like the Trump administration’s decision to pull back Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency demand for “clean” vehicles, considered unrealistic by experts.

Further, Trump’s efforts have included the widely publicized effort to reduce the number of federal employees – actually eliminating the posts in which federal workers often spent their careers creating new rules.

“Agencies are being defunded, downsized, and in some cases shuttered. Guidance documents and sub-regulatory decrees — once used to bypass notice-and-comment rulemaking — are now in the crosshairs as well,” explained Crews.

He said Congress, which had been urged to take these very actions, should learn.

“When the bureaucracy gets put in time out, nobody but the vast industry surrounding it misses it, and the economy, jobs, and public health and safety get a boost,” he said.