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Government Regulations are going bye-bye (this is very serious) [1]
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Date: 2025-04-10
In case you hadn't noticed, Donald Trump has been buzz sawing through any regulations that stop his drill, baby, drill fetish. Specifically telling businesses that they can forget those lengthy EPA review and permitting regulations.
On January 31st, there was a Fact Sheet titled: President Donald J Trump Launches Massive 10-1 Deregulation Initiative. The Executive Order it explained was called: Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation.
What this did was set a standard that for every new regulation that was to be created, an agency had to get rid of 10 first. Not only that, but there could not be any economic impact for creating the first regulation or when the 10 were removed. Sort of a Catch-22.
On January 9th, a total of three new executive orders went after government regulations all at once.
Reducing Anti-Competitive Regulatory Barriers Directing the Repeal of Unlawful Regulations Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy
There's a lot to unpack, but I'll do my best without trying to attack the phraseology.
The first one directs the whole government, every agency, to repeal all regulations that hinder business competition, that actually create monopolies, hinder new entrants to markets, and remove licensing that gets in the way. The aspiration is for a free marketplace.
But do you want regulations removed that govern oil production, control banks from illegal activities, and ripping off depositors, FDA approval required for pesticide use? I could create a 10 page list just to start.
Remember when George W. Bush deregulated the banks, and they got their hands caught in the cookie jar with subprime mortgage loans? And we went into a depression? That's the sort of thing that regulations are meant to prevent. Trump doesn't care.
The second order uses 10 court decisions to require the removal of regulations that would just relate to the decision. No testing in court needed. The worst one was an EPA loss that changed the definition of water, rivers, marshlands, and the land that connects them. Oil spills? No problem. Hazardous materials from a train wreck? Who cares? It goes away eventually. Four out of the 10 are EPA losses.
The first case is the biggest. The one that canceled the Chevron doctrine that said trained experts in agencies were the ones to determine regulations being created to comply with laws passed by Congess. Now, the courts have to be omniscient deciders of how everything should be done. Bad idea.
The next one is anti-union. Says businesses can bar union organizers from being on their property.
Another is the case that struck down the whole idea of affirmative action, a prelude to Trump's attack on DEI. Colleges could no longer consider race as a qualification to undo racism of the past. Oops, time is up. The problem is fixed so we don't need to do this anymore.
Carson v. Makin said that if you give tuition assistance to families in rural districts, religious schools are entitled to a piece of the pie so schools can be turned into religious indoctrination centers.
The last happened because of Covid, where Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York mandated that to prevent the spread, the churches and synagogues had to work like all other gatherings. This was determined to be a First Amendment violation as a form of religious discrimination.
One EPA ruling was that they could not regulate pollution from power plants.
Another reduced the EPA's power to enforce the Clean Water Act.
The last was the EPA's ability to regulate air pollution.
All of these are businesses winning at the expense of your health.
The ten taken together are an assault on reason thanks to courts and especially the Supreme Court with the cancellation of the Chevron doctrine.
The Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy is a scary portent of things to come.
Ten agencies have to insert a one-year expiation date into all of their regulations. If they don't renew them, they go away automatically. No court cases. No opposition. They're gone.
Any new regulation has to have a five year expiration date in them. Same deal. Not renewed and they're gone.
The ten agencies are:
Environmental Protection Agency Department of energy Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Bureau of Land Management Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement United States Fish and Wildlife Service United States Army Corps of Engineers
I can hardly stress how important regulations are in every single one of these agencies. It's what keeps us healthy and happy. Trump is saying to the business community: go ahead and rape the air and land and water for your own purposes. Flora and fauna be damned as well.
The agencies above are just the start. Trump will apply this principle to every agency, bureau, commission there is in the government. They are going to have to keep track of them all.
Here's the page on DOGE.gov that shows how many regulations there are in the big agencies. Regulations sometimes take years to go into effect because there is a phase for public comment on the positive and negative impacts.
Just as one example, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was ready to put a $5 bank overdraft charge into effect at the end of the year. Congress just got rid of that so you can keep paying $35 for overdrafts forever. It took years to get to this point where the overdraft fee limit was going to take place. Even when you get a good regulation, it can be taken away by Congress. Now it's all in the courts' hands as well.
Over the years, there are regulations in place, and laws in place, that make no sense. That doesn't mean you get rid of all of them just because of that one. You have an agency meeting, or a court case, and it gets decided whether it is useful or legal or not. Just casually removing everything from the books makes no sense at all. Suppose you had to relitigate every single criminal and civil law every year. It would be a legal disaster for both the courts the prosecutors the plaintiffs and the defendants.
That's the kind of chaos that this is going to create with governmental regulations. It's another one of Trump's fetishes that is going to destroy the country in a different way. We just got a reprieve from the tariff disaster yesterday. But the stock brokers finally figured out that there was still a 10% tariff in place on everything, and the Dow Jones is 800 points down at the moment.
The tariffs affected your money and what everything is going to cost. This wholesale slaughter of government regulations takes care of the rest of destruction of the United States by Trump.
And it's all for business by a bankrupted businessman.
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