Trump banishing Obama's memos, regulations

WND ^ | 11/24/2017 | Alicia Powe

[ForYourChildren]

'Doing better than Ronald Reagan' to cut rules!

Under the Obama administration, the White House, the Department of Justice and other federal agencies repeatedly circumvented Congress by using guidance memos to create de facto regulations, changing laws without going through the review process.

In less than a year, however, the Trump administration has dramatically scaled back government overreach, Merrill Matthews, a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation, told WND.

“Guidance typically from the department means there is some question about how to do this, because of the way it was ambiguously written, so a federal agency would provide guidance. But the Obama administration, actually, greatly overstepped those limits in clarifying things to in essence create new law,” Matthews explained.

“The Trump administration is doing better than Ronald Reagan on reducing the flow of regulation,” he said, citing the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Obama ended his presidency with a record-shattering regulatory rulebook. The Federal Register topped off at 97,110 pages, an all-time high, with 18 regulations added for every new law .

While regulations and Federal Register pages, where agency rules and regulations are published, dropped more than one-third under President Reagan over several years, CEI notes, the Trump administration cut the number of pages in the Federal Register 32 percent in the first nine months of this year.

The Trump administration has saved $560 million by cutting regulations, according to American Action Forum.

When Trump ran for president, he promised to slash as many as 80 percent of all federal regulations, and he is on his way to fulfilling that promise.

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[BobL]

“They must be stopped. Convict a few judges, strip them of office and throw them in prison. That last part is essential to send the right message to these thugs: No more!”

While there clearly has to be some way to hold these judges accountable...I doubt that ever happens.

The next best thing is to simply keep winning the White House and the Senate. If we can get 12 years straight of Trump-type judges, the next Democrat in the White House will find his powers severely limited.

And note to Ted Cruz - you don’t get Trump judges onto the courts by pouting about how you were unfairly treated in the Primaries and all but endorsing Hillary at the Convention.

[Fresh Wind]

[Pride in the USA]

Thank you, President Trump!

[lonevoice]

Love it! Now if he could just get some “winning” that he doesn’t have to do by himself.