DOGE builds AI tool to cut 50 percent of federal regulations

The Washington Post ^ | July 26, 2025 | Hannah Natanson, Jeff Stein, Dan Diamond and Rachel Siegel

[MinorityRepublican]

The U.S. DOGE Service is using a new artificial intelligence tool to slash federal regulations, with the goal of eliminating half of Washington’s regulatory mandates by the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post and four government officials familiar with the plans.

The tool, called the “DOGE AI Deregulation Decision Tool,” is supposed to analyze roughly 200,000 federal regulations to determine which can be eliminated because they are no longer required by law, according to a PowerPoint presentation obtained by The Post that is dated July 1 and outlines DOGE’s plans. Roughly 100,000 of those rules would be deemed worthy of trimming, the PowerPoint estimates — mostly through the automated tool with some staff feedback. The PowerPoint also suggests the AI tool will save the United States trillions of dollars by reducing compliance requirements, slashing the federal budget and unlocking unspecified “external investment.”

[AndyJackson]

analyze roughly 200,000 federal regulations to determine which can be eliminated because they are no longer required by law

What a mess. Of course if there is no legal basis for a regulation then the administrative state cannot create it anymore.

[nwrep]

Many are simply there due to administrative inertia long past the due date.

[BipolarBob]

Deputy Doge is blowing the heck out of red tape regulations.

[fruser1]

How about cutting the regs that actually do tremendous damage, like the eco crap.

If you want your kids to move out of the house before they hit age 50, get rid of car regs too.

[Deaf Smith]

“roughly 200,000 regulations”

Start by removing the federal regulations and “law” created by way of the Chevron Difference, which SCOTUS knocked down.

[abb]

“Look out, Marshall Lucky!!”

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

First Doge subjects government departments to actual audits.

Now they assay to use AI to identify regulations no longer required by law.

I could learn to like those guys . . .

(I actually have been an Elon fan ever since he made an honest web site out of Twitter - not that I identify with the concept of a “third” - really umpteenth - party)

[redfreedom]

This is a stab directly into the heart of the Deep State, aka The Administrative State. It’s how they get around Congress by making up their own rules. Sadly, Congress never cared as long as they got their share of the cash.

Thank God for Trump, this national nightmare is slowly coming to an end.

[Fungi]

George Burns : Do it, do it

[castlebrew]

Start with any that are direct violations of our rights or separation of powers. There are ~20,000 various infringements of our 2A rights that can go away right off the bat. Then 8 US Code 546 (d) where federal district judges have any say whatsoever in the President’s choice of US Attorney for any given district.

Then there are all those not directly supported by Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution.

Not to mention entire departments and their associated rules/policies/guidance - and budgets.

[CandyFloss]

Makes sense. I hope it is true.

[thinden]

big balls bump

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article MinorityRepublican.

"DOGE builds AI tool to cut 50 percent of federal regulations"

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In addition to cutting federal regulations, if AI tool is provided with federal Constitution, Supreme Court case opinions, federal laws, also writings of respected constitutional experts, then it should be able to throw out 99+ percent of unconstitutionally big federal government imo.

In fact, its drafters never intended for lawmaker job of the constitutionally limited power (hint) federal government to be a full time job imo.

"Article I, Section 4, Clause 2: The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year [emphasis added], and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by Law appoint a different Day."

After all, peacetime militia support aside, how many federal lawmaker hours are needed to make sure the mail is delivered on time, the US Mail Service being one of the very few MAIN powers that the states have actually given to the federal government, most federal domestic policy now based on stolen state powers.

• "Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"

  "It is one of a few government agencies explicitly authorized by the Constitution of the United States." (non-FR)

• "From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.

[MacNaughton]

[Sequoyah101]

I’ll wager that the 100,000 that are no longer needed don’t include a lot of duplicates and overlaps and contained more than once regulations.

[Eleutheria5]

Gotta love Elon.

[The Duke]

I’m all for AI where AI really offers a benefit. In this case, however, a good, old fashioned decision tree would probably be a superior approach.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

if AI tool is provided with federal Constitution, Supreme Court case opinions, federal laws, also writings of respected constitutional experts, then it should be able to throw out 99+ percent of unconstitutionally big federal government imo.

In fact, its drafters never intended for lawmaker job of the constitutionally limited power (hint) federal government to be a full time job

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The central misapprehension, IMHO, which infected constitutional law was the passage and implementation of the amendment mandating direct election of senators. The original constitution states that no state can be denied its equal representation in the senate w/o its consent, but in actuality no state government is now represented in the senate . . . and representation in the senate of the state governments was always the intention of the framers of the Constitution. Without that, the states are neutered by people such as those who infested the Warren Court. Who had scant respect for the state governments and no fear of their influence in the senate.

The trouble with expecting AI to fix the anomalies produced by that is that the people take for granted that direct election of senators is a good thing. And no computer program is likely to disabuse them of that notion

which gets back, btw, to my point about what AI needs to be constructed to do: not only to figure out the answer to a given question but to present it in a powerfully persuasive way. Achieve that, and what you then have is an educator. We won’t need no stinking’ teachers then.

[spintreebob]

Well said

Start with redundancy. Every state regulates Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms. Get rid of the ATF.