Bloomberg Law
December 15, 2017, 8:51 PM UTC

Deregulatory Goals Exceeded for 2017: Trump Administration

Bloomberg Law - Staff Reports

Federal agencies in President Donald Trump’s administration exceeded their goals of vastly reducing the number and cost of regulations in 2017 and are on track to do so again next year, the White House said.

“I want every Cabinet secretary, agency head, and federal worker to push even harder to cut even more regulations in 2018,” Trump said in remarks Dec. 14 at the White House. “And that should just about do it. I don’t know if we’ll have any left to cut.”

The president’s remarks were timed to match the release of the long-awaited Fall 2017 Regulatory Plan and ...

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