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Biden Administration Has Cemented $1 Trillion Worth Of Rules And Regulations In 2024, Analysis Finds
American Action News via Daily Caller ^ | 05/02/2024 | Nick Pope

Posted on 05/02/2024 10:22:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The Biden administration has saddled the U.S. economy with more than $1 trillion worth of final rules and regulations thus far in 2024, according to analysis conducted by the American Action Forum (AAF).

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final emissions regulations for light- and medium-duty vehicles, which some have characterized as an electric vehicle (EV) mandate, pushed the costs of the Biden administration’s regulatory agenda over the $1 trillion threshold for 2024, alone, according to AAF’s analysis. Across all agencies and regulatory actions last week, the federal government published regulations imposing $103 billion worth of total costs and 11.6 million annual paperwork hours.

Between April 22 and April 26, federal agencies proposed 38 additional rules and regulations that would cumulatively cost about $34 billion, according to AAF. Some of the major, expensive regulatory actions the administration advanced last week include the Department of Labor’s “overtime rule” and a new Medicare rule from the Department of Health and Human Services.

This past week, the final rule cost total for just 2024 can now be measured in 13 digits. While no rule matched the singular impact of the prior week’s EPA rule – because, really, what could? – this was also one of the more prolific weeks in recent memory.


https://t.co/ayWiFEmg3b

— American Action Forum (@AAF) April 29, 2024

“This past week, the final rule cost total for just 2024 can now be measured in 13 digits,” Dan Goldbeck, AAF’s director of regulatory policy, wrote of the administration’s regulatory agenda on Monday. “While no rule matched the singular impact of the prior week’s EPA rule – because, really, what could? – this was also one of the more prolific weeks in recent memory.”

As of July 2023, the Biden administration’s regulatory agenda had proven to be considerably more expensive than those pursued by the administrations of former Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama through the first thirty months of each presidency.

Polling suggests that voters are strongly concerned about the health of the economy ahead of the 2024 elections. Some economists believe that the U.S. economy could soon have to confront “stagflation,” the combination of weak economic growth and high inflation, if “stagflation” has not yet already arrived.

“As we have already seen from executive orders and memos, the Biden administration will surely provide plenty of contrasts with the Trump administration on the regulatory front,” Goldbeck wrote on Monday. “And while there is a general expectation that the current administration will seek to broadly restore Obama-esque regulatory actions, there will also be areas where it charts its own course.”

The White House did not respond immediately to a request for comment.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aaf; administrativestate; biden; bidendestroyseconomy; bidenomics; bidenreich; business; despotism; economy; fjb; regulation; regulations; tyranny; worthlessjoe
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To: SeekAndFind

The new overtime rules are causing great pain and confusion in the farm world. And surprise, even DOL cannot explain what qualifies or how its calculated.


21 posted on 05/03/2024 5:32:36 AM PDT by small farm girl (My pronouns are who and cares)
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To: SeekAndFind

I suspect this is the real reason for high prices and lower quality. That and supply issues.


22 posted on 05/03/2024 5:46:51 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: SeekAndFind

All of which a unconstitutional. The Criminal Biden Regime.


23 posted on 05/03/2024 6:32:20 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: ducttape45

Since 1990s a 12-pack of Pepsi was $3.00 Even in 2019 you could find the dozen at that price on sale.

Now over $7 is the best price on 12.

So stable for 20 years til biden, then more than double in 4 years.


24 posted on 05/03/2024 6:40:41 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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To: afchief

You forgot evil. Democrats are evil, as are many of their voters.


25 posted on 05/03/2024 7:12:52 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: SeekAndFind

But Trump is the dictator and “threat to democracy.”


26 posted on 05/03/2024 8:27:49 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: SeekAndFind

with more than $1 trillion worth of final rules and regulations thus far in 2024,


Do any of you have an underst5anding of how Trump got rid of the regulations that he did?

There was a law past in the mid 90’s that any interpreted regulation had to go back to congress for final approval. IF this was not done, it was as if the regulation never existed.

I was starting to get involved with this with representative steve king and his staff and Trumps staff when the elections were stolen.

At the time it was being implemented very selectively by Trump. Maybe learning how it works. But also, if implemented with broad strokes, it would create a lot of chaos.

Trump and his staff are very much aware the democrats NEVER followed the law regarding this.

I repeat the words, the regulation is gone, like it never existed.

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10023


27 posted on 05/03/2024 12:03:01 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: know.your.why
... and creators of office-based sitcoms...

YUp, matter of fact you DO owe me a new keyboard!

28 posted on 05/03/2024 2:34:27 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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