Why Biden will get rid of the 'two-for-one' regulation order on day one
It won't get the attention of rejoining the Paris Climate Accords or halting building on the wall at the southern border, but President-elect Biden will likely retract a large number of executive orders on his first day in office. One downside to using executive orders to govern as President Trump did, is that they are very easy to reverse.
Executive orders govern the management of the executive branch and do not impact the public directly. But, in numerous instances, they have been used by presidents to direct agencies to take certain actions that can then affect the public. One example of this is Trump's Executive Order 13771 which requires agencies to withdraw two regulations every time they issue a new one, and to prepare a regulatory budget. The idea behind both proposals is to push agencies to repeal existing regulations.
The order has been - at most - a limited success.
It may have deterred executive branch agencies from issuing new regulations (although the dearth of new regulations under the Trump administration can more likely be explained by Cabinet Secretaries with deregulatory preferences). However, in a recent report with Professor Cary Coglianese and Natasha Sarin of the University of Pennsylvania, we showed that the Trump administration has done much less repealing of regulations than they have claimed. And the economic impact of their limited deregulating has likely been minimal and probably has had negative economic consequences.
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