News Release
Changes to the Regulatory State Make Trump’s Budget Unique
The White House released President Trump’s 2018 budget proposal this week. Regardless of who’s in power, the U.S. budget for the next fiscal year will…
News Release
CEI Reviews Trump Budget on Regulation, EPA, Transportation and Infrastructure
Policy experts offered their first takes on President Trump's budget, with a focus on regulatory reform, the EPA, and transportation and infrastructure reforms.
Reason
Rand Paul’s REINS Act Finally Makes It to Senate Floor
Reason discusses Rand Paul’s REINS Act with Clyde Wayne Crews. A Senate committee vote on Wednesday is a new high water mark for…
Forbes
These Federal Aviation Administration Regulations Are Why We’re Not Going to Mars
During president Donald Trump’s discussion about drinking processed urine on the International Space Station with duration record-setter Peggy Whitson, the exchange turned to a…
The Fiscal Times
How Congress Could Make Steve Bannon’s Wildest Dream Come True
The Fiscal Times discuses regulatory reform barriers that the administration faces with Wayne Crews. But as Wayne Crews of the right-wing Competitive Enterprise…
Washington Times
Pulling the Administrative State off Autopilot
Reducing burdensome regulations could unleash the full potential of America This past weekend marked President Trump’s 100th day in office. While tax cuts and health…
New York Times
Fact-Checking President Trump Through His First 100 Days
The New York Times reports on President Trump highlighting CEI’s estimated cost of regulation from Wayne Crews’ annual Ten Thousand Commandments report. During…
Forbes
New Trump Executive Order Seeks To Boost Agriculture And Rural America
“My farmer died.” —Punchline to the old joke about why a USDA employee is weeping at his desk The ratio of number of farmers…
National Review
Trump’s 100 Days Have Made a Good Start on Regulation
National Review highlights Wayne Crews’ calculated cost of regulation from his annual Ten Thousand Commandments report. While a regulatory improvement commission would help…
Forbes
New Trump Executive Orders Spotlight Interior And Education ‘Regulatory Dark Matter’
Executive orders and proclamations expanding the scope of Washington over the nation’s business characterized much of the Barack Obama presidency. The former president himself–not just…
Forbes
The March For Science Should Demand Separation of Science And State
My second youngest son wanted to head downtown to D.C. for the March for Science. I had to explain to him that’s not quite…
Forbes
The Only Way Trump’s Washington Can Be Smaller In Four Years
There are now several moving and overlapping parts to President Donald Trump’s streamlining, swamp-draining, “deconstruction of the administrative state” agenda. Last week brought Office…
News Release
CEI Responds to FCC Move to Deregulate Broadband
Reversing initiatives it pursued during the Obama administration, the Federal Communications Commission has accelerated its push to deregulate, by voting to ease limits on broadcast…
Newsmax
‘It’s About Bloody Time’ Someone Cuts Excessive Government Regulation
Newsmax highlights the cost of regulation from Wayne Crews’s Ten Thousand Commandments report. The Competitive Enterprise Institute estimates that the total cost of…
Blog
Two Potential Outcomes for the Office of American Innovation
Yesterday the White House announced the launch of an Office of American Innovation. This is the latest of several moving and overlapping parts to President Trump’s…
Fortune
Regulations Cost U.S. Business More Than Canada’s GDP
President Donald Trump’s administration has been busy issuing a flurry of executive orders intended to reduce regulatory burdens on businesses that keep them from adding…
News Release
Mapping Washington’s Lawlessness: CEI Releases Updated Inventory of “Regulatory Dark Matter”
Today, the Competitive Enterprise (CEI) released the 2017 update to its comprehensive report Mapping Washington’s Lawlessness: An Inventory of “Regulatory Dark Matter.” This analysis covers…
Forbes
Here’s What Donald Trump And Congress Should Do About Regulatory Dark Matter
It’s becoming too easy for federal agencies to steer private activity without issuing “real” regulations anymore. Instead, we get regulatory dark matter — particularly…
The Wall Street Journal
Trump vs. The Blizzard
The Wall Street Journal cites Wayne Crews’ latest study on Regulatory Dark Matter: He will need every bit of political skill…
The Daily Caller
Agencies Use Regulatory ‘Dark Matter’ To Skirt Trump’s Reforms
The Daily Caller discusses regulatory “Dark Matter” under the new Trump Administration Federal regulatory orders include presidential and agency memoranda, guidance documents, bulletins…
Study
Mapping Washington’s Lawlessness
With regulatory dark matter, there are tens of thousands of documents that agencies can use to circumvent Congress, allowing the federal government to inject itself into…
News Release
CEI Comments on President Trump’s “Comprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch”
"Today regulation is used as a tool of economic control. It is time to return to agencies bound by law which can serve as a…
Townhall
Those ‘Devastating’ EPA Reductions
Townhall highlights Wayne Crews’ research on the cost of federal regulations. Complying with EPA and other government regulations inflicts staggering costs that reverberate…
E&E News
Conservatives ponder expansion of Congressional Review Act
Washington Post
The administrative state is huge, and it’s only getting bigger
The Washington Post highlights Wayne Crews’s research on the federal regulatory state. Just what White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon meant when…
Washington Examiner
Trump’s economic transformation is only getting started
Washington Examiner highlights Wayne Crews’s calculated cost of federal regulations. One of the main reasons why the Obama economy has limped along, year…
Pittsburgh Tribune
Peeling back Obama’s ‘onion’: It’s going to take time
The Pittsburgh Tribune discusses President Trump’s executive order on regulation with Wayne Crews. Under an executive order by Mr. Trump, every new regulation…
Bloomberg BNA
GOP Races Against Time to Roll Back Clock on EPA, Other Rules
Bloomberg BNA highlights Wayne Crews’s calculated annual cost of federal regulations. Environmental and public interest groups say the campaign to nullify various regulations…
The Hill
GOP searches for new way to cut Obama regs
The Hill discusses Congressional efforts to get rid of major regulations with Wayne Crews. But pressure is mounting from conservative groups for Republicans…
CNBC
CEO confidence at near-record high. Why? Trump’s war on regulation
CNBC highlights Wayne Crews’s calculated cost of federal regulations from his annual Ten Thousand Commandments report. Last week President Donald Trump signed an executive…
CNBC
Trump’s deregulation wave may have companies geared up to spend and hire
CNBC highlights Wayne Crews’s calculated cost of federal regulations from his annual Ten Thousand Commandments report. In a Friday note, Jefferies Chief Market…
Washington Post
Can Trump win his war on the regulatory state?
The Washington Post discusses the cost of federal regulations with Wayne Crews. Now regulation is pervasive. It touches air and water pollution, pensions,…
Blog
Assessing Prospects for Bipartisan Consensus on Regulatory Reform
The federal government doesn’t merely spend $4 trillion a year, it directs the private sector to spend and otherwise re-purposes enormous resources.
Washington Examiner
Trump about to unleash his fury on the regulatory state
Washington Examiner highlights Wayne Crews’s work to track the number and cost of federal regulations. No one even has a reliable count of…
Forbes
Trump And The Federal Bureaucracy Just Collided — Here’s What Happens Next
Agencies’ rules and regulations surged during Barack Obama’s last year, helping create a Federal Register 20 percent larger than the prior record. Bureaus and…
News Release
Wayne Crews of CEI Responds to President Trump’s Executive Order on Regulations
“Regulations have compounded for decades with very little rollback ever taking place, so President Trump’s executive order requiring agencies to identify two regulations for elimination,…
Reason.com
Trump’s Executive Order on Regulations Is Welcome, But More Is Needed
Reason.com discusses President Trump’s executive order on new regulations with Wayne Crews. Still, rolling back federal regulations in a meaningful way will require…
Foundation for Economic Education
The Epic Failure of the Government Gas Can
Part of living on Earth is mowing its grass and performing outdoor chores. Last International Earth Day, while the Globe held hands and celebrated Gaia…
Wall Street Journal
How the House Will Roll Back Washington’s Rule by Bureaucrat
The Wall Street Journal highlights Wayne Crews’s annual study on the costs of federal regulations. In President Obama’s final year the Federal Register…
Library of Law and Liberty
Regulatory Reform: A Few (Not So) Easy Pieces
Library of Law and Liberty discusses midnight regulations from the Obama administration with Wayne Crews. Yes: you can dismiss REFORM as starry-eyed. It…
Forbes
Donald Trump’s 100 Day Executive Action Agenda
New presidents emphasize 100-day priorities, but president-elect Donald J. Trump likely has a 100-minute agenda. An early post-election action instructed transition managers to “develop…
Newsmax
Trumponomics Differs From Reaganomics
Newsmax highlights Wayne Crews’s study on the decline of federal regulation during the Reagan administration. Deregulation. Pages within the Federal Register, the official daily…
Forbes
Obama’s Legacy: Here’s A Raft Of Executive Actions Trump May Target
It’s president Barack Obama’s last week. Is the American left ready to consider reining in executive power yet? Coming to terms with the bipartisan stake…
The Hill
It’s time to enact regulatory relief for credit unions and consumers
The Hill quotes Wayne Crews’s research on the cost of federal regulations from his annual Ten Thousand Commandments report. The impact of excessive…
Washington Examiner
9.7 billion hours required to complete 1 year of federal paperwork
Washington Examiner speaks with Clyde Wayne Crews on how many hours it took Americans to fill out and compleate federal paperwork in 2015. …
Blog
13,953 Human Lifetimes Spent Annually on Federal Paperwork (2017 Edition)
The burden of federal government paperwork now takes up 9.778 billion hours a year.
Forbes
A CES Takeaway: Don’t Fear Robots And Artificial Intelligence–Fear Politicians
Maroon 5 keeps popping up on my Pandora stations, so artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning still have a ways to go. Even if AI…
InsideSources
Congress Should Get Ready to ‘SCRUB’ Regulatory Rulebooks
InsideSources highlights Wayne Crews’s calculated cost of federal regulations from his annual study. According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the cost of complying with…
Investor's Business Daily
Putting An End To Obama’s Economy-Destroying Regulatory Siege
Investor’s Business Daily highlights Wayne Crews’s research on last-minute federal regulations from the Obama administration. As he heads for the exits, Obama is…
Washington Times
Protective press refuses to call President Obama a ‘lame duck’
The Washington Times reports on Wayne Crews’s research on the number of federal regulations issued in 2016. So how many new regulations did…