Two-for-one quota was superseded by Trump's ten-for-one deregulation order
Reporting and findings
- reported
Government Executive reports that Trump's 2025 order replaced the earlier two-for-one model with a ten-for-one directive and that outside regulatory experts disputed how the administration counted deregulatory actions and savings; claimed totals therefore require method-specific treatment.
- Government Executive: Experts say Trump inflated his deregulation numbers, but his process changes are here to stayTen-for-one successor policy and expert critique of counting methods
- documented
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.
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Summary and current status
Biden ended the first-term quota. Trump restored the mechanism in 2025 at a fivefold rule-count ratio, while experts disputed administration methods for counting savings and repeals.
2017 quota revoked in 2021; a ten-for-one successor has governed second-term review.
People and organizations
- Executive Order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costsexecutive action under legal and impact review
- Donald J. Trumppresident who issued the action
Relationships in this file
- Donald J. Trumpimposed regulatory repeal quota throughExecutive Order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs