Consumer Confidential: Trump doesn't want you knowing the benefits of regulations far outweigh the costs
by David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times
Mar 05, 2018
4 minutes
President Donald Trump recently patted himself on the back for the "most far-reaching regulatory reform" in U.S. history, which wasn't true but that wasn't the point. The point was that Trump has made eliminating government regulations one of his top priorities.
"We have decades of excess regulation to remove," he said, calling on his Cabinet members "to find and remove every single outdated, unlawful and excessive regulation currently on the books."
Trump and his Cabinet may want to rethink that proposition.
Last month on a Friday night, when the White House figured no one was looking, it quietly released a congressionally mandated report from the Office of Management
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