In a new insight, Director of Regulatory Policy Dan Goldbeck takes stock of the deregulatory actions of the second Trump Administration’s first six months, comparing them in quality and quantity to those of its last term and predicting what the rest of Trump’s deregulatory agenda will entail.

Key points:

• In the first six months of President Trump’s second term, fully implemented deregulatory actions containing some measurable economic impact have accounted for an estimated $86 billion in total regulatory cost savings and 52.2 million hours in paperwork reductions.
• Much of these savings are tied to a single rulemaking, belying the fact that – outside of that one action – this opening salvo lags behind similar efforts undertaken in the first six months of Trump’s first term in 2017 in certain ways.
• Various proposed rules and other planned actions established in these opening months, however, suggest that even bolder measures with important quantitative and qualitative effects are very much underway.

Read the analysis.