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"President Trump has embarked on the most aggressive campaign against government regulation in a generation, joining with Republican lawmakers to roll back rules already on the books and limit the ability of federal regulators to impose new ones.
After just a few weeks in office, the new administration is targeting dozens of Obama-era policies, using both legislative and executive tactics. The fallout is already rippling across the federal bureaucracy and throughout the U.S. economy, affecting how dentists dispose of mercury fillings, how schools meet the needs of poor and disabled students, and whether companies reject mineral purchases that fuel one of the worlds bloodiest conflicts.
The campaign has alarmed labor unions, public safety advocates and environmental activists, who fear losing regulations that have been in place for years, along with relatively new federal mandates. Business groups, however, are thrilled, saying Trump is responding to long-standing complaints that a profusion of federal regulations unnecessarily increases costs and hampers their ability to create jobs.
Under Trump, theres great optimism that all of them will be addressed, said Rosario Palmieri, vice president for labor, legal and regulatory policy at the National Association of Manufacturers.
Trump and congressional Republicans are working to strip rules away at an unprecedented rate. One of the most powerful levers is the Congressional Review Act, a 1996 law that gives lawmakers the power to nullify any regulation within 60 days of enactment.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-undertakes-most-ambitious-regulatory-rollback-since-reagan/2017/02/12/0337b1f0-efb4-11e6-9662-6eedf1627882_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_dismantling-545pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.6742d3f27177
MountCleaners
(1,148 posts)This shows that the greedy are still running things. They keep stealing these elections so they can get their "free market".
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,192 posts)We already know he has a water sports fetish
logosoco
(3,208 posts)These things really bug me, not just because I am an environmentalist, but because I am not a business person and even I know it is not paying taxes or following regulations that are holding businesses back. It is supply and demand! Anyone blaming slow business on environmental regulations is just plain ignorant. And unaware of how the earth is all connected.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)They want to lock in all this stuff under his signature before they turn on him over national security etc.
still_one
(92,394 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)And a republican President".