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To: sylvester80 who wrote (1357713)	5/6/2022 4:12:30 PM
From: SeachRE	Respond to of 1575583

Thanks for posting this photo. The guy's a clown but did cause a whole lot of damage to the US...a few trillion dollars...

To: sylvester80 who wrote (1357713)	5/6/2022 4:31:33 PM
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Ukraine Snipers Killed Civilians In Mariupol Say Residents

To: sylvester80 who wrote (1357713)

5/7/2022 7:34:42 AM

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Help me out here. Didn't Trump deregulation's help overall? Bridge, highway built (approved) in 1-2yrs opposed to 5-10-20yrs? Just take the lawyers profiting added 8yrs...anyone else maybe? Politicians, courts, increased budgets, etc. Sorta goes with trillions Military money missing. Why is socialism (borrowing) dying?

Again how did Building 7 fall? . )

It's ok, one day you'll thank Trump....

Finding 4: The Trump administration has underway 514 deregulatory rulemakings on a wide range of issues.

Finding 5: There are early signs that Trump’s deregulatory agenda is being blocked or delayed by the federal judiciary.

Why is the flow of new regulations so small under Trump? His administration did propose large cuts in the budgets of regulatory agencies, though Congress largely failed to adopt them even when it was controlled by Republicans. Therefore, we believe the most important factor may be the appointments President Trump made to the federal regulatory agencies because they appear to have been made with a preference for deregulation. Another underappreciated factor may be vacancies at regulatory agencies. An unusual feature of the Trump administration is that the White House has been relatively slow to nominate candidates for top regulatory posts and the Republican-?majority Senate has been correspondingly slow to approve the nominations that were made.

Finding 2: The Trump administration has been somewhat effective in working with Congress on legislative acts of deregulation.

The Trump administration worked with the Republican-?majority House and Senate to deregulate through legislative action. The tools to accomplish this included resolutions of disapproval of recent rules under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) and deregulatory provisions inserted as part of newly enacted legislation.

Until President Trump took office, the CRA had been used to overturn only one regulation since the law’s inception. The CRA is an unlikely tool if the White House and both houses of Congress are not held by the same party because the president can veto disapproval resolutions and a two-?thirds congressional majority would be required to override the veto.

The 2016 election allowed the Republican Party to take control of the White House and both chambers of Congress simultaneously. The Republican Congress promptly began applying the CRA in an aggressive manner. Between February 14, 2017 and May 21, 2017, 16 resolutions of disapproval were passed and signed by Trump. Many other resolutions of disapproval were introduced but failed to garner bicameral support for various reasons, including the scarcity of Senate floor time; the CRA limits the time for passage of disapproval actions.

The economic importance of the 16 CRA disapprovals can be questioned. None of them approach the potential economic effect of the multi-?billion-?dollar Occupational Safety and Health Administration ergonomics rule that was the subject of the sole previous use of the CRA, back in 2000. And several of the recent CRA actions were enacted without quantitative estimates of benefits and costs; that analysis is required only for major (economically significant) regulations.

The Trump administration also worked with Congress on direct legislation to accomplish deregulation. Four items are worthy of mention:

Congress repealed, as part of tax reform, the penalty for violating the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the most unpopular provision of President Obama’s signature piece of domestic legislation.
Also as part of tax reform, Congress authorized oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Alaska’s North Slope.
Congress passed modest deregulatory provisions in banking reform legislation.
In a March 2018 appropriations law covering the Department of Labor, Congress created a compromise to the controversy surrounding how tips are allocated at restaurants.

Finding 3: Progress toward reviewing and removing the huge body of existing regulations has been slow, though there have been some notable achievements.

In comparison to the huge volume of unanalyzed existing regulations, the number of completed Trump deregulatory actions is very small. The combined total for FY 2017 and FY 2018 is 243 out of the 68,846 total regulations adopted in the last 24 years, if we accept the accuracy of OIRA’s “deregulatory” classifications. The vast majority of the 243 are not economically significant, but they address a wide range of issues, from exemptions for religious and moral objections under the ACA, to streamlined approvals of liquefied natural gas exports.

Finding 4: The Trump administration has underway 514 deregulatory rulemakings on a wide range of issues.

The administration’s Regulatory Agenda reports 514 deregulatory rulemakings are ongoing (i.e., “active”). This number is small compared to the huge stock of existing regulations, but larger than what the Reagan administration tackled over a similar time frame. The fact that 26 are categorized as economically significant and 156 are categorized as significant indicate that they may represent important changes to national policy.

Finding 5: There are early signs that Trump’s deregulatory agenda is being blocked or delayed by the federal judiciary.

TABLE 1 New Rulemakings During Recent Presidents’ First 24 Months
	Total Regulations	Significant Regulations	Major Regulations	Regulatory Actions under EO 13771*	Deregulatory Actions under EO 13771*
G.W. Bush	6,999	1,885	103	N/A	N/A
Obama	6,793	1,931	176	N/A	N/A
Trump	4,310	1,027	90	17	243
Sources: US GAO Federal Rule Database and the White House Office of Management and Budget. * Covers the time period from 1/20/17 through 9/30/18.