Election Focus Squeezes Trump’s 2-for-1 Rule Order (Corrected)

President Donald Trump is set to deliver a speech Thursday at the White House about his administration’s success in rolling back regulations, a mainstay of his 2016 campaign platform, even as federal agencies this year are planning to issue twice as many expensive new rules as big cuts.

Trump will highlight the administration’s work to improve all Americans’ quality of life through deregulation, White House Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere said. The Council of Economic Advisers estimates that people in the lowest income brackets would lose more than 15% of their disposable income if a future administration rolled back Trump’s ...