The Trump Economy, Past and Future
The Washington Examiner cites Fred L. Smith Fellow in Regulatory Studies Wayne Crews on deregulation and the Federal Register:
The Trump deregulation may have been even more significant in reducing business costs and unleashing investment. The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Wayne Crews calculates that the Federal Register in 2017 finished with the fewest pages since 1993. Mr. Trump’s first three years in office produced record-low levels of significant regulations. While such rules increased in 2020, many rolled back Obama-era regulations.