Trump 2020 Agenda Envisions More New Rules Than Dumping Old Ones

The number of significant, expensive rules federal agencies plan to issue next year is nearly double the amount of deregulatory actions in store, undercutting President Donald Trump‘s pledge to slash regulations, according to an analysis of the administration’s new regulatory roadmap.

A total of 119 active, economically significant regulations—those with an annual economic impact of $100 million or more—were included in the fall 2019 unified agenda of federal regulatory and deregulatory actions, which the White House Office of Management and Budget released Nov. 20.

Of the total number of economically significant rules in the new agenda, 39 were listed ...