The 20 measures are:
In January, Trump signed an executive order that would cut two regulations for every new regulation proposed. Trump stated, “If there’s a new regulation, we have to knock out two.”
President Trump signed an executive order advancing construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines, previously blocked by the Obama administration. Subsequently, the Trump administration approved the construction of both pipelines.
Trump signed an executive order in February known as “Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda.” The order will create regulatory watchdogs that will find new onerous regulations to eliminate. Trump said that “every regulation should have to pass a simple test: Does it make life better or safer for American workers or consumers? If the answer is no, we will be getting rid of it and getting rid of it quickly.”
Trump signed a bill that rescinds the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) broadband privacy rule that many scholars argue are duplicitous and onerous. Critics of the rule, including FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, argue that the Federal Trade Commission would be better suited to protect consumer privacy than the FCC. Katie McAuliffe, executive director for Digital Liberty, said this broadband rule “was a power grab under the guise of privacy.”
Trump signed J.Res. 58, which overturns the Education Department’s rule that relates to how teacher training programs are assessed. The Washington Post explained the rule’s unpopularity: “Teachers unions said the regulations wrongly tied ratings of teacher-training programs to the performance of teachers’ students on standardized tests; colleges and states argued that the rules were onerous and expensive, and many Republicans argued that Obama’s Education Department had overstepped the bounds of executive authority.”
The president signed legislation that nullifies a Department of Education rule relating to state accountability requirements. The rule concerned states’ accountability in identifying failing schools and reporting their plans for improving them to the federal government. Trump commented on rescinding both education rules, saying they “eliminate harmful burdens on state and local taxes on school systems that could have cost states hundreds of millions of dollars.”
Trump signed an executive order that minimizes the burden of Obamacare. The executive order makes it harder for the IRS to enforce Obamacare’s individual mandate. Judge Andrew Napolitano called Trump’s Obamacare executive order “revolutionary.”
President Trump signed an executive order killing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). He told Breitbart News during the campaign, “The TPP is another terrible one-sided deal that rewards offshoring and enriches other countries at our expense. I will stop Hillary’s Obamatrade in its tracks, bringing millions of new voters into the Republican Party. We will move manufacturing jobs back to the United States and we will Make America Great Again.”
President Trump signed an executive order instituting a federal hiring freeze, although there is an exemption for the military. A federal hiring freeze was the second point in President Trump’s “Contract with the American Voter.” During his inaugural address, the president said, “For too long, a small group in our nation’s capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth.”
President Trump signed legislation that repealed a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule mandated under the Dodd-Frank Act that requires companies such as Exxon Mobil or Chevron to publicly disclose the taxes and fees they pay to foreign governments. Analysis shows that the regulation costs the industry $1.3 billion. President Trump instituted a freeze on all new regulations that have not been finalized.
President Trump signed a resolution that overturned the “Stream Protection Rule” issued by Obama’s Department of Interior during his last weeks in office. Trump said the resolution would “eliminate another terrible job-killing rule.”
President Trump signed an executive order that would review every executive agency and department to find out, as Trump says, “where money is being wasted [and] how services can be improved.”
President Trump signed legislation that repeals a Social Security Administration rule that bars Americans from their right to bear arms. Breitbart’s AWR Hawkins wrote about the rule: “Of all the regulations on the chopping block this week, the Social Security gun ban stands out as especially egregious. The Obama administration fashioned it in a way that gives the Social Security Administration the ability to bar certain beneficiaries from buying guns based on a need for help in managing their finances.”
President Trump signed legislation that eliminates an onerous methane emissions rule that effectively drove energy production from federal lands.
Trump signed an executive order that would review the Clean Power Plan, and possibly rescind Obama-era regulation that limits coal-fired power plants.
President Trump signed legislation that repeals a Department of Labor rule that severely limits the ability of states to implement drug testing.
President Trump signed legislation that repeals the Bureau of Land Management’s rule that would shift resource management from the states to the federal government.
President Trump signed an executive order in February that scales back the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial overhaul. The executive order directs the Department of the Treasury to consult with regulatory agencies and report to the president about what could be done to eliminate what the administration considers “overreaching.”
President Trump signed an executive order delaying the Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule that critics contend limits consumer choice for retirement account holders.
Do you have a link to this? Actually my understanding was the Senate repealed the BLM rulemaking process under the Congressional Review Act. This rule did not shift resource management from state to federal level. Rather, it reverted public comment and input into the BLM planning and decision making processes back to what it was in 1983.
I'm not really sure how this is a win for sportsmen.
This may sound cool on the surface, but my prediction is it will turn into a regulatory nightmare for federal agencies. It already has for such things as NOAA opening commercial fishing seasons. It simply paints everyone into an unnecessary corner.
I completely support the constant evaluation of regulations and searching for ways to make life easier and simpler. However, it's not as easy as DJT wants it to be. It has already been noted by the courts that they must take into consideration the merits of implementing the rule in the first place when they consider the merits of eliminating it.
One of the primary drivers of the public lands transfer (PLT) movement has been mismanagement of federal lands. For years, federal agencies have asked their field employees to do less with more, to the point of complete and utter inefficiency. Wildland fire management is a farce because the agencies are continually in reactive mode in terms of personnel and budgets. I fail to see how hiring freezes will lead us to BETTER management of our federal lands, which is what I seem to be hearing many Republicans say they want. If they want better management, it will take personnel and money, neither or which seem to be a priority.
Hell, for that matter, it takes employees to do EIS and/or EAs and issue permits. If more intensive extractive use on public lands is the goal, it wouldn't seem to me that hiring freezes are the way to get there.
Hopefully this will allow for a better and more productive method to be found for evaluating school and teacher performance. It's a broken system right now.
JLS's Link
Also, increasing the number of legal battles over repealing regulations because it's mandated does not seem to contribute to efficiency in my mind. If repealing a regulation is justifiable and beneficial, then that's a much more defensible action than "doing it just because".
WH Website Asks Americans to Suggest Ways to Reorganize, Downsize Federal Gov't
“Give us your ideas and help us fix your government so that it serves you, instead of the other way around,” Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney implores Americans in a new White House video.
Standing in a room full of regulations created by the federal government in just the past two years, Mulvaney pleads with citizens to “Help me fix it” as he introduces a new White House webpage where Americans can suggest specific ways to “eliminate unnecessary agencies” and “drain the swamp.”
At the White House’s “Reorganizing the Executive Branch” webpage, Americans have until June 12, 2017 to tell the Trump Administration:
• Which agency, board or commission to reform,
• How to reform it,
• The benefits of that reform,
• Which agencies, boards, commissions, and programs should be eliminated,
• Management reform suggestions, and
• Any other suggestions (and/or links to full proposals)
On Wednesday, in a press release announcing its new "Comprehensive Plan for Reforming the Federal Government and Reducing the Federal Civilian Workforce" memorandum, the White House said it wants as much input as possible from American citizens:
“We want to make sure your voice is heard and therefore encourage you to contribute your suggestions online at https://whitehouse.gov/reorganizing-the-executive-branch. Please share this link as widely as you see fit—and on an ongoing basis.”
“This is a major initiative, and we look forward to your being a part of it,” the announcement closes.
I'd love to see many of the bureaucratic departments not only downsized, but re-located out of the DC area into the lands of those that are most affected by their rules and regulations. Another way to augment the draining of the swamp is to dilute it by spreading it out across the country. Those little busy converters of tree pulp into reams of regulations would find that the cost of living in the real world was lower--meaning that the government can cut the costs of government.
If PBS can't make it on their own then they deserve to die. Same with NPR.
The EPA needs to be dismantled, redefined and re-done from the ground up. They have become the man made climate change version of the IRS.
Sending $1.00 to DC, just so they can send $0.60 back to a state capital which then spends it inefficiently on projects that could be done faster and cheaper by non-government companies only seems like a good idea if you have worked in Government your whole life.
In most parts of the economy the least capable individuals go into the Public sector, it's been that way for as long as I can remember. The fact that these jobs now pay more than equivalent jobs in the Private sector is an absolute joke.
Career politicians seem to think that there is something about getting elected that suddenly makes you an expert on all things (Firearms are a perfect example). There is a businessman now in charge, and (almost) everyone who truly understands what that means knows it's going to be a very good thing.
The powers would be the Democrat's who control the state for the past decades...
