{"id":2024678,"date":"2023-09-07T13:54:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T17:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-regulatory-long-war\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T13:58:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T17:58:29","slug":"the-regulatory-long-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-regulatory-long-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulatory Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">4<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-regulatory-long-war%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2024678&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Commentary<\/h2>\n<p>In\u200c his 2019 State of the Union address to Congress, President Donald Trump deplored &#8220;the new calls to adopt socialism in\u2062 our country,&#8221; affirmed that \u200b&#8221;America \u200bwas founded on liberty\u200d and independence, and not government coercion, domination, and control,&#8221; that \u2062&#8221;we \u2062are born free and we will stay \u200bfree,&#8221;\u2062 and \u2064decreed that &#8220;tonight we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>The Trump presidency is usually sized up based on the onslaughts waged against \u200cit by the left, such as accusations \u200bof Russia\u2019s influence on his campaign, which\u2064 three years of wasted, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-gop-lawmaker-hiring-retired-cops-to-probe-2020-election\/\" title=\"Wisconsin GOP Lawmaker Hiring Retired Cops to Probe 2020 Election\">taxpayer-funded investigation<\/a> thoroughly discredited; the two failed impeachments; plus, as regards policy, policing the border against illegal immigration and weaponizing trade policy against foreign adversaries like China;\u2063 and, \u200cfinally, saving the nation from what we know now would have \u200cbeen \u200bthree Hillary Clinton Supreme Court appointees.<\/h3>\n<p>But arguably the former president\u2019s most consequential actions opposing the encroachment of socialism\u2014and those most hated and resisted by the Washington swamp\u2014were in the regulatory sphere.<\/p>\n<p>The pushback against his administration\u2019s \u2062prodigious deregulation measures is still unceasing.<\/p>\n<p>In recent \u200cdays we have seen American industry complain that Washington is inflicting upon the\u200c U.S. economy a banking regulatory regime far more punitive than the \u2063trends found in the\u200d socialistic European Union. Secretary Pete\u2064 Buttigieg\u2019s Transportation \u200bDepartment, for example, just rescinded President Trump\u2019s 2020 authorization \u200callowing the transport of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">liquefied natural gas<\/a> via railway;\u2063 and President Joe Biden is even \u2063resurrecting the\u2063 1931 Davis-Bacon Act\u2019s artificially high wage rules for Big Labor, dead since the Reagan era, to be applied to the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-top-energy-regulator-previously-lobbied-for-offshore-wind-farm-approved-by-administration\/\" title=\"Biden's Top Energy Regulator Previously Lobbied for Offshore Wind Farm Approved by Administration\">green energy initiatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is an inherently undemocratic character to the relentless thirst for more and more\u2064 regulation. A President\u2063 Trump executive order directed executive \u200bbranch agencies to post\u2062 their guidance documents on the internet and identify the rules they use in\u2064 determining them. \u2063The purpose was &#8220;to ensure \u2063that Americans are subject to only those binding rules imposed through duly enacted statutes or through regulations lawfully promulgated under them, and that Americans have fair notice of their obligations\u2026&#8221; This approach had bipartisan support, yet \u200cPresident Biden revoked the order on the very day he took office, told the \u200cagencies to cease public\u200c disclosure and explanation, and took down the agencies\u2019 guidance websites.<\/p>\n<p>One \u2062might ask, then: If the regulations are so\u2063 great and necessary, why \u200bdon\u2019t the regulators want the public to know as much about the rules as possible?<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of revoking the Trump demand for governmental transparency, Susan Dudley, who founded the George Washington\u2062 University Regulatory Studies Center and was \u2063the regulation \u2064overseer in the George W. Bush White\u2062 House, warned two years ago that while &#8220;President Biden certainly displays more personal humility than his predecessor \u2026 he\u2062 must embrace \u200cregulatory humility as \u200cwell.&#8221; \u200dShe noted that &#8220;in revoking former President Trump\u2019s\u200b regulatory executive orders, President Biden threw at least one baby out \u2064with the bathwater. He abandoned Executive Order 13,891, which required agencies to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stay-the-f-out-of-this-issue-jackasses-biden-admin-flooded-with-negative-comments-over-gas-stove-regulations\/\" title=\"'Stay the F Out of This Issue, Jackasses': Biden Admin Flooded With Negative Comments Over Gas Stove Regulations\">seek public input<\/a> when developing significant new guidance and to make all their guidance readily accessible online,&#8221; \u2064a case\u200c of a &#8220;Trump initiative that received general support from a wide range of\u2064 law and policy experts who have worried about lack \u200dof transparency and abuse of guidance\u2064 for decades.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration boasted of cutting close to eight regulations\u200d for every new one imposed, with the ultimate effect of lifting Americans\u2019 real incomes\u200b more than $3,000 annually per household, and saving consumers and businesses over $220 \u2063billion a year. And even\u200b when courts blocked Trump\u2019s deregulation, remnants often remained. Plus, as aggressive as the Biden administration\u2064 has\u200c been in reversing his\u200c predecessor\u2019s regulatory \u200brelief, \u200che could not always succeed. For instance, President Barack \u2064Obama\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-regulatory-long-war\/\" title=\"Regulatory Warfare\">broad climate regulatory authority<\/a> on states\u2019 electricity production, scrapped by President Trump, could not \u200dbe reinstated by\u2063 President Biden, and the administration has been forced to pursue a different approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>our resolve to protect our great nation from the dangers of socialism.&#8221; President Trump emphasized the importance of individual freedom and rejected government control. He vowed to defend America&#8217;s liberty and declared his commitment to preserving the nation&#8217;s independence. The speech aimed to reinforce the nation&#8217;s dedication to freedom and resist the growing influence of socialism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":2024679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2024678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2024679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}