In a new insight, Director of Regulatory Policy Dan Goldbeck walks through President Trump’s two most recent regulatory executive orders that expand White House oversight and control of “independent agencies” and establish an even more extensive deregulatory agenda than the recently announced regulatory budget framework.

He concludes:

The Trump Administration marks the first month of its second term with quite the one-two punch on the regulatory front. The EO on independent agencies expands the pool of agencies that now must conduct more rigorous cost-benefit analysis while also perhaps eliminating the practical distinction of “independent agencies” depending upon how certain judicial decisions unfold. The latter EO vastly expands the scope of the administration’s deregulatory review process and opens the door to the remarkable possibility of agencies forgoing enforcement of certain rules while such reviews are ongoing. This has been an especially wild and chaotic month in terms of politics, policymaking, and associated legal filings. It seems that it’s about to get even wilder.

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