Donald Trump – Regulation Buster

Trump’s first term provided a hiatus from the abuse heaped on us by a profusion of regulations issued by an Administrative State. The second is off to an even better start. 

John M. Contino | June 29, 2026

False humility is not an attribute one would ascribe to Donald J. Trump. In December, 2025, the White House Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) boasted that the numbers for Fiscal Year 2025’s year-end regulatory accounting “are not only bigger and better than expected, but historic. [snip] In total, agencies finalized 646 deregulatory actions compared to only 5 regulatory actions, for a ratio of 129-to-1, dramatically exceeding the President’s 10-to-1 target.”

“The Trump Administration’s deregulatory agenda is the most ambitious in American history. We have blown far past the target 10-to-1 deregulatory ratio in President Trump’s Executive Order, saving hundreds of billions for the American people. In less than one year we have already achieved more savings than in all four years of the prior Trump Administration, and we’re just getting started,” said White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought.

“The Trump Administration’s deregulatory agenda is the most ambitious in American history. We have blown far past the target 10-to-1 deregulatory ratio in President Trump’s Executive Order, saving hundreds of billions for the American people. In less than one year we have already achieved more savings than in all four years of the prior Trump Administration, and we’re just getting started,” said White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought.

Braggadocio, to be sure, but President Trump is a man who walks the walk. In February of this year, the EPA press office published a summary of what EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said was “the single largest deregulatory action in U.S. history,” as the EPA eliminated:

both the Obama-era 2009 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Endangerment Finding and all subsequent federal GHG [greenhouse gas] emission standards for all vehicles and engines of model years 2012 to 2027 and beyond. The action also eliminates all off-cycle credits, including for the almost universally hated start-stop feature. [snip] In finalizing this rule, EPA carefully considered and reevaluated the legal foundation of the 2009 Endangerment Finding and the text of the........

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