How Biden Has Made Policy With Short-Term, Costly Rules: Charts

President Joe Biden relied on short-term regulations with significant economic impact to achieve key policy aims in the first year of his presidency—even as federal judges ruled he didn’t have the power to write those rules.

Without a working majority in Congress, the president turned to temporary rules to rapidly meet his pandemic goals in particular. He approved 19 temporary rules, a total that exceeded even his regulation-friendly former boss Barack Obama, according to Bloomberg Government’s analysis of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs’ work logs.

The list of short-term regulations includes his vaccine-or-test mandate for the ...