Trump imposed a two-for-one regulatory repeal quota on executive agencies
Entities and roles
- Executive Order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costsdocumented action or event
- Donald J. Trumppresident responsible for the cited action
Claims and evidence
- factdocumented
On 2017-01-30, Donald Trump ordered executive agencies, unless prohibited by law, to identify at least two existing regulations for repeal when publicly proposing or promulgating a new regulation and set the fiscal-year 2017 total incremental cost of new regulations at no greater than zero unless otherwise required by law or approved by the Office of Management and Budget.