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Presidential Executive Order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs

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    Superseded · open corrected record

    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    Trump imposed a two-for-one regulatory repeal quota on executive agencies · superseded evidence record

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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)

    Two-for-one quota was superseded by Trump's ten-for-one deregulation order · 2017 quota revoked in 2021; a ten-for-one successor has governed second-term review.