The second Trump administration has been more sweeping than the first in its push to unravel federal rules, the Biden administration’s top regulatory official said Monday as he warned some of the Trump team’s efforts are on “tenuous legal ground.”
The Trump 2.0 approach to deregulation has involved “across-the-board, overarching efforts to kill lots of regulations in one fell swoop,” Richard Revesz, who served as the head of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Biden administration, said Monday during a webinar hosted by the group Governing for Impact.
The Trump administration has made deregulation a central part of the president’s policy agenda, vowing to eliminate 10 existing regulations for each new one put on the books. “President Trump will halt the job killing and inflation-driving regulatory blitz of the Biden Administration,” the White House said in January.
The push so far contrasts with the Trump administration’s first-term approach, Revesz added, when “there were a lot of terrible regulatory moves that were done as one-offs.”
