Boom - EO for Regulatory reduction and cost containment

[whell]

Originally Posted by barbara

This scares me.
Seems to me there might have been a reason why those regulations were out into place.
And, in typical Trump fashion, there is a vagueness about the mandate.

That's why the mandate will leave it up to the individual agencies to provide the regs that they wish to dispense with. I'd wager that for any one Federal Reg, there's probably at least 5 that are outdated, ineffective, or useless.

Remember Obama undertook a similar effort, but I suspect there's still a ton of low - hanging fruit out there.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/bu...2regulate.html

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

That's why the mandate will leave it up to the individual agencies to provide the regs that they wish to dispense with. I'd wager that for any one Federal Reg, there's probably at least 5 that are outdated, ineffective, or useless.

Remember Obama undertook a similar effort, but I suspect there's still a ton of low - hanging fruit out there.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/bu...2regulate.html

You must not have read the article you linked to:

But speci@lists on both sides of the political aisle say that the president is wasting the government’s time. They say there are few rules so dumb, duplicative or outdated that everyone can agree they serve no purpose. Rather, most regulations reviled by some are cherished by others, meaning that any effort to reduce regulation is a political process, not a question of housekeeping.

“The history of these kinds of efforts is that they don’t matter very much,” said Peter Van Doren, editor of Regulation magazine, a publication of the libertarian Cato Institute, which generally advocates for less regulation.

Gary Bass, executive director of OMB Watch, a nonprofit that generally advocates for more regulation, said the cost of the search was likely to outstrip the benefits.

I agree with these fellows. Trump is again just trying to make a splash and impress the rubes without bothering to take the time to understand the issue (or even have knowledgeable and repsonsible staff research the issue). I'm happy for you that you can be so impressed by such a meaningless, uninformed gesture by your Trumpenfuhrer.