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What's Next for Regulations?

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I Love the 10,000 Commandments

Patrick Cronin: I started tabulating the cost of regulation 20 years ago when we had bipartisanship. He says Biden has effectively put that on steroids with his guidance document portals which he's now revoked. The last time rule counts went below 3,000 under Trump it was in 2018; they're returning to pre-Trump levels this year but pages are creeping back up and you can find out how many there are by looking at federalregister.gov. Cronin: We wouldn't know that 107,000 rules would have been taken down if not for an executive order from President Barack Obama during his first term.

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