If this shoved through by Obongo at the end why does it take both houses to fix it. It feels like anything worthwhile is dead going into the Senate because of the 5-6 Rat moles. Can’t it be done with an EO?
Trump can issue an EO overriding a previous EO by Obama. This was a regulation issued by a federal agency, so it requires a congressional rollback.
Yes, but not as permanently. Using Trump's pen to overwrite Obama's lets the next Rat POTUS pen overwrite Trump's. The way the Congressional Review Act they're using to undo this works bans re-instating the same or similar regulations by executive fiat. They'd have to actually pass a law to specifically do it. Which is harder. Congress and Trump are being smart to do as much this way as they can, even though it takes somewhat longer. The mechanism is normally time limited so that only the last six months or so can be undone this way. However, the original author of the Act reported it could be used on older regulations, dating back to the passing of the Act, if the regulators failed to dot their i's and cross their t's in certain ways. I hope they have a group searching for eligible older regs to nuke.