“Less than four weeks after taking office, President Trump, his senior White House aides and a group of Republican lawmakers gathered in the Oval Office to sign a resolution that killed an obscure Obama-era energy regulation,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“In the following months, Trump would sign more than a dozen similar resolutions, undoing a raft of Obama administration regulations on everything from unemployment to education. The effort was made possible by Trump’s unprecedented use of a 1996 law called the Congressional Review Act, which allows a new president, with the help of allies on Capitol Hill, to quickly eliminate regulations put in place in the final months of the previous administration.”
“If he wins a second term, Trump plans to use the same tactic to unravel as much of President Biden’s agenda as possible… And senior Biden aides are doing everything in their power to stop him, setting off a behind-the-scenes scramble to Trump-proof as many regulations as they can before they become vulnerable to being overturned under the 1996 law.”
Save to Favorites