{"id":2382550,"date":"2024-12-21T08:19:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T13:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-focus-will-trump-create-regs-to-cut-regs-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-21T08:22:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T13:22:13","slug":"in-focus-will-trump-create-regs-to-cut-regs-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-focus-will-trump-create-regs-to-cut-regs-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"In Focus: Will Trump create regs to cut regs? &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fin-focus-will-trump-create-regs-to-cut-regs-washington-examiner%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=2382550&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--><p>The article discusses\u200b President-elect donald Trump&#8217;s plan to streamline\u200b regulations\u200b in his \u200dupcoming second \u2064term, proposing to eliminate ten existing regulations for every new one enacted.\u200c Trump emphasizes the need for \u200dgovernment efficiency and has indicated \u200cthat \u200bhe aims to tackle the overwhelming number of rules that he believes are unneeded. he\u200b has pledged to \u200bcreate a new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to help in this initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The article also\u2062 highlights challenges facing Trump,\u2063 particularly opposition\u200b from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-dems-balk-at-passing-major-gun-control-reforms-ahead-of-election\/\" title=\"Virginia Dems Balk at Passing Major Gun-Control Reforms Ahead of Election\u00a0\">vested interests<\/a> both inside \u200cand outside Washington, as\u2064 well as the biden governance&#8217;s\u200d efforts to\u2063 create new regulations aimed at &#8220;trump-proofing&#8221; the federal government before he potentially takes office. The Biden\u200d administration has implemented\u200b numerous costly new \u2063regulations that could pose hurdles for\u200b Trump&#8217;s regulatory \u2063agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Three primary methods are\u200c outlined \u2062for Trump \u200cto rescind regulations enacted under Biden: pausing unfinished rules, leveraging\u200c the Congressional\u2063 Review\u2064 Act \u200c(CRA) \u2062to overturn recent regulations, and a\u200d more challenging route for rules \u2064finalized beyond\u200b the\u200c CRA&#8217;s 60-day window. These methods face political and procedural obstacles, including a narrow\u2062 Republican majority in the House and the administration&#8217;s preemptive measures to\u200b secure controversial regulations before a potential change\u2063 in leadership. \u200dThe article concludes with an indication of the complexity and potential difficulties Trump may encounter in \u2063achieving his regulatory goals.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump may need to create more regulations to destroy them<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1909789\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> has promised to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/regulations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"cut 10 regulations\">cut 10 regulations<\/a> for each new one he creates, but as with many things in government, doing so will be a complicated affair.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m pledging today that in my second term, we will eliminate a minimum of 10 old regulations for every one new regulation,&rdquo; Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/3144599\/trump-assault-administrative-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"told\">told<\/a> the Economic Club of New York in September. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll be able to do that quite easily, actually.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump promised a 2-to-1 ratio during his first term and claims he hit it, but he is making government efficiency a central focus of his second term, especially via the high-profile Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have a country that is bloated with rules, regulations, and with, frankly, people that are unnecessary,&rdquo; Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7201565\/person-of-the-year-2024-donald-trump-transcript\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"told\">told<\/a> <em>Time<\/em> magazine in his Person of the Year interview. &ldquo;We are going to need a lot of people in a lot of other jobs. We&rsquo;re looking to get people into private sector jobs where they can do better and be more productive.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>That may be so, but there are also vested interests inside and outside of Washington that will fight Trump every step of the way, including through the regulatory process and likely in court as well.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, President Joe Biden&rsquo;s administration spent much of this spring working to &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3106551\/biden-administration-rulemaking-blitzes-aim-trump-proof-federal-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Trump-proof\">Trump-proof<\/a>&rdquo; the federal government just in case Trump returned to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>How effective will those stalling efforts be? We&rsquo;ll soon find out. <\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has been among the most aggressive in history in implementing costly new regulations, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanactionforum.org\/week-in-regulation\/a-generally-quiet-week-rocked-by-one-major-revelation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"according\">according<\/a> to the American Action Forum, creating 1,099 new agency rules that will cost $1.8 trillion in bureaucratic spending and 347 million paperwork hours. <\/p>\n<p>The total for Trump&rsquo;s first term was $112 billion, while even the ideologically aligned Obama administration only totaled $492 billion in new rule costs during his first term.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and his allies will have three paths toward ending the Biden-era regulations when he takes office, depending on what stage those rules have reached on Inauguration Day.<\/p>\n<p>The first and easiest path will be to simply announce a pause on any as-yet-finished rules, halting progress on them on Jan. 20, 2025. That may seem like a dramatic step, but it has become standard practice when control of the White House changes from one party to the other. <\/p>\n<p>Obama, first-term Trump, and Biden all enacted a regulatory freeze early in their terms. <\/p>\n<p>The second path involves rules that have been finalized within 60 days of the new congressional session, which fall under what is known as the Congressional Review Act.<\/p>\n<p>Passed in 1996, the CRA allows Congress to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-issues-first-veto-of-his-presidency-to-stop-congress-from-scrapping-esg-rule\/\" title=\"Biden issues first veto of his presidency to stop Congress from scrapping ESG rule\">rescind recently finalized rules<\/a>, but it was used only once before Trump&rsquo;s first term. In 2017, Trump and a Republican Congress used it 14 times to nix Obama-era regulations, and Biden used it three times in early 2021. <\/p>\n<p>Congress tried to use the CRA in 2023 to undo Biden&rsquo;s student loan forgiveness schemes, but that effort was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/287447\/biden-vetoes-joint-resolution-against-student-loan-forgiveness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"vetoed\">vetoed<\/a> by the president, illustrating the difficulty of using the procedure under normal circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>While 60 days may not seem long, since only legislative business days count, anything finalized after about Aug. 1, 2024, might be rescinded using this procedure, according to George Washington University&rsquo;s CRA <a href=\"https:\/\/regulatorystudies.columbian.gwu.edu\/congressional-review-act-window-exploratory-dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"exploratory dashboard\">exploratory dashboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few other hurdles that any new regulations must pass to escape the CRA, which could prove ripe for a motivated Republican Congress in early 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The CRA provides the 118th Congress with more than just the power to overturn regulations finalized within its last 60 legislative days,&rdquo; Competitive Enterprise Institute scholar Clyde Wayne Crews <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/waynecrews\/2024\/08\/26\/a-glide-path-for-overturning-biden-regulations-in-the-119th-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"wrote\">wrote<\/a> in <em>Forbes<\/em>. &ldquo;It also mandates that for any rule to be considered effective, it must be properly submitted by the relevant agencies to the Government Accountability Office and both chambers of Congress.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But the CRA has still been used fewer than 20 times in its history and can be difficult to implement in the best of circumstances. The exceptionally narrow Republican House majority may complicate matters, along with the tight timeline, so only a relatively small number of the more than 1,000 rules finalized under Biden are likely to be rescinded in this way.<\/p>\n<p>The other factor complicating matters is that Team Biden is fully aware of the existence of the CRA and thus finalized some of its most controversial rules <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3106551\/biden-administration-rulemaking-blitzes-aim-trump-proof-federal-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"in the spring\">in the spring<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That brings us to the third group &mdash;&nbsp;rules finalized ahead of the CRA cutoff date. Those will take the longest time and the most effort to rescind, though that won&rsquo;t stop Trump from pursuing or overturning them.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Biden moved in the spring to finalize rules against what Trump calls Schedule F, a policy that would expand the number of government employees the president can fire. Conservatives argue that too many government bureaucrats are not beholden to the president and thus form a vast &ldquo;zombie state&rdquo; that is immune to the results of elections and the will of voters.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We will <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">pass critical reforms making<\/a> every executive branch employee fireable by the president of the United States,&rdquo; Trump said in 2022. &ldquo;The deep state must and will be brought to heel.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Biden halted Trump&rsquo;s Schedule F plans on Day One of his administration and finalized a rule against it in the spring. The Biden administration also released final rules regarding a controversial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2971440\/biden-administration-finalizes-controversial-title-ix-rule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Title IX\">Title IX<\/a> rewrite and a slew of environmental regulations in April.<\/p>\n<p>Trump will have to go through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressional-research-service-raises-questions-about-osha-vaccine-mandates-legality\/\" title=\"Congressional Research Service Raises Questions About OSHA Vaccine Mandate\u2019s Legality\">full rulemaking process<\/a> to rescind any finalized rules, submitting a proposed rule, taking comments on it from the public, and then listing the final rule before implementation, a process that can take up to two years.<\/p>\n<p>That process may give Trump a less exciting &ldquo;Day One&rdquo; agenda, but it is unlikely to stop him, just as the Biden administration has gone through the same process to put its rule in place since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The slow pace of the process, however, combined with the inherently temporary nature of any presidential term, has some scholars arguing that Trump and his Elon Musk-led DOGE will need to keep a sharp focus. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You need to be precise in your analysis and what you&rsquo;re changing because there will be legal challenges to any number of rules, and that really can throw a wrench into your plans if you don&rsquo;t cross your Ts and dot your Is,&rdquo; said Dan Goldbeck, director of regulatory policy at the American Action Forum.<\/p>\n<p>One irony of the situation is that even the process for slashing regulations is slow and methodical, preventing the kind of speed with which Trump would like to move. Rules cannot technically be rescinded directly, only replaced with new rules that counteract the old ones.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Trump is fired up with a month to go before he takes office, promising big things as soon as he walks back into the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There are many things you can do without Congress,&rdquo; he <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7201565\/person-of-the-year-2024-donald-trump-transcript\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"told\">said<\/a> in his <em>Time<\/em> interview. &ldquo;When it comes to cutting, harder to get, but to cut, you can do a lot of things without Congress.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And cutting, he continued, is what he was elected to do, no matter how much work it takes.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to see what happens,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;We have some interesting months coming up at the beginning. We&rsquo;re going to see what happens. But this country is bloated.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1909789\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1909789\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump may need to establish more regulations to eliminate them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2635,"featured_media":2382551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Donald-Trump-slash-regualations.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5045,4326,5565,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2382550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-government","tag-policy","tag-regulations","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Donald-Trump-slash-regualations.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382550","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\/2635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382550"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382554,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382550\/revisions\/2382554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2382551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}