All but the most ardent followers of regulation usually greet the semi-annual Unified Agenda of Regulatory & Deregulatory Actions with a yawn, but that is not the case with the report the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) issued this morning. The Trump administration is using the Agenda not only to share its planned regulatory and deregulatory actions over the coming year, but also to report on agencies steps towards achieving the president’s deregulation promises. It is clearly proud of its progress on this front; the Agenda is being issued much earlier than in past years (when OIRA has struggled to get it out by December), and is accompanied by a colorful report with flashy graphics.
The big headline from “Cutting the Red Tape: Unleashing Economic Freedom” is that agencies’ achieved a 12-to-1 ratio of deregulatory-to-regulatory actions in fiscal year 2018, for a net savings of $23 billion (equivalent to about $1.6 billion in annual savings). Let’s look at these more closely.
Billions in savings reported
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The left desperately wants the likely Republican voters to think that their side has no chance is many of these races, so they'll stay home.
I predict that, much like in 2016, these folks will show up in droves, as they now know what High Turnout can do. I also suspect that a lot of former Democrat voters will stay home (and/or vote 3rd party) as voting Against their own wallet, and voting For a far left socialist-democrat-tax-increaser just seems like a bad idea.
Her theme is America First, and our current president is the perfect choice.
