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-- 2017 --
December 14:
Trump promises to reduce federal regulations to pre-1960 level
President Trump vowed Thursday to step up his war on government regulations,
saying his ultimate goal is to shrink the Code of Federal Regulations to
its 1960 size.
"The never-ending growth of red tape in America has come to a sudden, screeching
and beautiful halt," Trump said. "We're going to cut a ribbon because we're
getting back below the 1960 level, and we'll be there fairly quickly."
In a White House photo op, Trump took a pair of gold scissors to a ribbon
linking two mounds of paper — one representing regulations as they existed in
1960 and the other representing today's code.
The 1960 code: about 20,000 pages. Today: more than 185,000.
... Trump's regulation czar suggested that such a massive rollback of
federal regulations wouldn't be that easy.
"I think returning to 1960s levels would likely require legislation. It's hard
for me to know what that looks like," said Neomi Rao, the director of the White
House's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. "Deregulation also takes
time. If we're doing something consistent with law, it takes time to reduce
rules."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/12/14/trump-promises-reduce-federal-regulations-pre-1960-level/953072001/
December 15:
AP fact check: Do Trump’s numbers on regulation add up?
President Donald Trump and his administration are ignoring one side of the
ledger when they claim big savings from the federal regulations they’ve been
able to roll back over most of this year.
Here’s a look at some of Trump’s statements about regulations and the economy
Thursday and how they compare with the facts:
TRUMP: “Instead of adding costs, as so many others have done, and other
countries, frankly, are doing in many cases, and it’s hurting them, for the
first time in decades, we achieved regulatory savings.”
THE FACTS: There’s incomplete accounting behind that claim. Trump and
his administration are adding up savings from the regulations that have been
withdrawn through September and omitting the economic benefit that those rules
provided [continue reading for more info and more examples]
The administration contends that it has completed 67
deregulatory actions and three regulatory actions through the end of September
that will result in a cost savings of $570 million a year. But that figure does
not include the offsetting of benefits that will now be missed because those
rules are gone. The White House Office of Management and Budget confirmed that
foregone benefits from retracted or modified rules are not part of that
calculation.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ap-fact-check-do-trumps-numbers-on-regulation-add-up
December
29: Trump Stretches Meaning of Deregulation in Touting
Achievements
One is a federal rule, initiated by former President Barack Obama, that removed
Yellowstone’s grizzlies from the list of endangered species. Another repealed a
grant program that hasn’t been funded since 2011.
They are among the 67 so-called "deregulatory" actions President Donald
Trump cited at a Dec. 14 event to tout "the most far-reaching regulatory reform
in history” designed to unburden the U.S. economy from the shackles of
government oversight.
While the president has succeeded in undoing some major environmental and
financial industry rules, a Bloomberg News review of the administration’s list
found almost a third of them actually were begun under earlier presidents.
Others strain the definition of lessening the burden of regulation or were
relatively inconsequential, the kind of actions government implements routinely.
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/trump-deregulation-achievements-rules/2017/12/29/id/834285/
-- 2018 --
January 20:
https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2018/01/20/trumps-regulatory-experiment-year-one-000620
January
29: Workers’ health,
safety, and pay are among the casualties of Trump’s war on regulations
A
deregulation year in review
https://www.epi.org/publication/deregulation-year-in-review/
February
23: Court hands Trump another defeat in bid to block
Obama-era oil and gas methane emissions rule
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/23/court-hands-trump-defeat-in-bid-to-block-methane-emissions-rule.html
March 4:
With her scant background in education policy, Betsy DeVos’s views on higher
education have been
something of a mystery. But if one word can capture the essence of
postsecondary policy under the current administration, it’s deregulation.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/DeVos-Has-Nixed-Several/242664
May 10:
Early in the Trump administration, Congress used the Congressional Review Act, a
statute that allows the Senate to bypass the filibuster to repeal recently
issued regulations.
By May 17, 2017, Congress had repealed 14 Obama regulations using the CRA in
a wide array of policy areas. They would add one more regulation from the
Consumer Protection Financial Bureau by the end of 2017.
But these repeals are largely the work of Congress and frequent punching bag for
President Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. And now, most Obama-era
regulations are off limits for the CRA (although Congress has explored
expanding its use). That leaves President Trump and his administration to
rely on the typical route for writing and revising regulations ...
Making announcements about a desire to repeal regulations is easy. President
Trump
did so in December (although his claim that 22 regulations had been repealed
for every new regulation was
vastly exaggerated). Actually repealing significant regulations is much
harder, as the administration is finding out.
An agency must start by developing a proposal to repeal a regulation. This must
often be accompanied by a detailed economic analysis of the repeal. The proposal
and the analysis are then sent to the Office of Management and Budget for a
review. When that review is complete, the proposal is published in the Federal
Register for public comment. Agencies must review the public comments, respond
to them, make any changes they feel necessary to their proposal and analysis,
and then resubmit it to OMB before publishing a final rule. Finally, the rule is
subject to litigation.
To navigate this process takes time and expertise. President Trump and his
Cabinet members ... have instead tried to rush through the many steps of this
process. This has meant that the last step, the litigation over regulatory
repeals, has proven particularly problematic for the administration. At the EPA,
courts have struck down delays or repeals of regulations
six times already. This pattern holds across the government.
http://theconversation.com/trumps-deregulatory-record-doesnt-include-much-actual-deregulation-96161
October
16: Another Obama Decision Reversed? Now It's About
Food Safety.
Citing President Donald Trump's calls for deregulation, Republican lawmakers and
the chicken industry are aggressively lobbying to speed up poultry inspection
lines — a change the Obama administration had rejected after warnings it would
endanger workers and increase food contamination.
... worker safety advocates fear that revving up line speed will harm plant
employees, many of whom are
immigrants and refugees already operating under dangerous conditions.
Eviscerating animal carcasses requires workers to use sharp tools to make
forceful, repetitive motions at high speeds and
exposes them to toxic chemicals used to kill bacteria.
"There's no data to support that this would be safe. And even at existing line
speeds, it's extremely unsafe," said Debbie Berkowitz, a senior fellow at the
National Employment Law Project, a research and advocacy group in Washington.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/another-obama-decision-reversed-now-it-s-about-food-safety-n810296
October
23: Trump Exceeds One-In, Two-Out Goals On Cutting
Regulations, But It May Be Getting Tougher ...
the administration is reporting that agencies continue to meet Trump’s
requirement (initiated in Executive
Order 13771 on Reducing
Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs) to eliminate two significant
regulations for every new one added.
While a dollar amount for cost savings of some $10 or $11 billion (in present
value terms) was anticipated for fiscal year 2018, the White House says $23
billion was cut.
So far, then, the Trump administration fiscal-year updates report to have
eliminated 134 significant rules (57 plus 67). However,
additional eliminations have occurred of rules not officially considered
“significant,” as well as eliminations of agency guidance documents argued to
have regulatory effect.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/waynecrews/2018/10/23/trump-exceeds-one-in-two-out-goals-on-cutting-regulations-but-it-may-be-getting-tougher/#4e9a08b23d40
November 14:
Trump Brags About Deregulation, But A Huge Number Of His Deregulatory Actions
Were Started Under Obama
President Donald Trump likes to brag about his record of cutting regulations.
Yet new data from his own administration suggest that the rules he's managed to
eliminate have had a minor impact at best—and many began under the Obama
administration.
That doesn't mean that Trump's deregulatory agenda is a myth, as some critics
have claimed, but it does show the limitations of what any one administration
can do unilaterally to pare back the administrative state.
https://cei.org/content/trump-brags-about-deregulation-huge-number-his-deregulatory-actions-were-started-under-obama
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