Trump’s ‘Deregulatory’ Juggernaut’?
Reason quoted a report by the Competitive Enterprise Institute on the success of the Trump administration in enacting deregulatory reforms.
“While the Republican machine that emerged from the 2016 election may be sputtering on other fronts,” The Wall Street Journal’s Gerald F. Seib wrote this week, “it is proving to be a juggernaut on deregulation.” But is that really true?
Seib notes that a recent U.S. Chamber of Commerce survey shows (in his phrasing) “29 executive actions…to reduce regulatory requirements,” “100 additional directives that either knock down regulations or begin a process to eliminate or shrink them,” “almost 50 pieces of legislation that have been introduced or begun moving through Congress,” plus the overturning of 14 end-of-term Barack Obama regulations via the Congressional Review Act (CRA).
He does not mention, though you can read all about it right here, that the Competitive Enterprise Institute one month ago issued a report at the Trump administration’s nine-month mark concluding that he is “the least regulatory president of all,” with significant ($100 million and up) regulations down 58 percent from Obama’s first 9 months of 2016, and significant proposed rules down 77 percent.
Read the full article at Reason.