Presidential Executive Order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs
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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.
Sections 2(a)–(b)Trump imposed a two-for-one regulatory repeal quota on executive agencies · Historical action documented; superseding policy is outside this entry’s scope. · reviewed 2026-09-03