Trump administration's own analyses indicate many of its new regulations will hurt vulnerable Americans
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's push to roll back federal regulations will take a significant toll on Americans' health and finances, according to a surprising source: the Trump administration itself.
These human costs - which include more deaths from air pollution, higher medical bills and increased student debt - rarely get mentioned by the president, who often touts the economic benefits of his deregulatory campaign.
But a review of thousands of pages of federal regulatory and legal filings shows that multiple agencies predict in their own analyses that the changes will cause an extensive list of harmful, even deadly, effects.
The Environmental Protection Agency, for example, calculated as many as 1,400 more premature deaths a year as a result of its proposed rule
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