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Link to article.The Trump administration’s war on Obama-era regulations is set to nearly double this year’s goal — and potentially go much further — after getting off to a slow start, according to budget experts.
With plans to cut $18 billion worth of regulations in fiscal year 2019, which ends in September, the administration is poised to boost that to $33 billion, according to a mid-year review by the budget watchdog American Action Forum.
What’s more, the administration is moving toward a regulatory cut that the review said would cut an additional $561 billion, 31 times this year’s goal.
Most of these regulations are unnecessary, but they grow like kudzu. For example, it used to be up to the individual investigators to determine when chemicals in their labs had expired and should no longer be used. Nobody ever had a problem with this. But now federal regulations 1) require that expiration dates be set for all chemicals, even those that never actually degrade with time, like Sodium chloride and water, 2) that inspections be made of labs on a regular basis to be sure that expired chemicals are not being used, 3) that chemicals are stored properly, 4) that certain chemical classes be stored in special containers, 5) that some chemicals can no longer be used at all so that more expensive alternatives must be found, and on and on. All of this takes up time and is very expensive. Pretty much all we did for 3 weeks out of one year was to get the chemical stores right by the regulations. They only problems we had were the result of the regulations.
You don't wonder why these regulations exist when you meet a team of investigators sent from DC to check our compliance whose jobs didn't exist until the regulations were enacted. You don't wonder why the deep state is fit to be tied over Trump's effort to get rid of these regulations.