The White House is urging federal agencies to pick up the pace to meet President Donald Trump’s deregulation goals, according to new guidance.
The Office of Management and Budget issued a memo this week on how agencies can follow several of Trump’s executive orders in the rulemaking arena, including repealing 10 regulations for every one issued and withdrawing rules deemed “unlawful” under recent Supreme Court rulings. The document comes as agencies blow by deadlines laid out in Trump’s first regulatory agenda, which arrived late as well, and administration proposals are blocked repeatedly in the courts.
The directive speeds up timelines for White House review of rules and prods agencies to bypass notice and comment periods for repeals so the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs can be their partner in “the deregulation agenda.” OIRA, the federal government’s regulatory hub, will impose a 28-day review period for “deregulatory actions” as well as a maximum 14 days to review “facially unlawful rules,” according to the memo.
“The goal of this Memorandum is to offer guidance to the agencies as to how to bolster, streamline, and speed both (1) the deregulation of facially unlawful prior government regulations and (2) those types of deregulatory activity that will continue to require the development of more extensive agency record-building,” said Jeff Clark, acting administrator of OIRA, in the memo.
