Politics
Trump Takes Credit for Killing Hundreds of Regulations That Were Already Dead
- Hundreds of rules said shelved by Trump were already dead
- Agencies, White House offer conflicting accounts of rules
Source: Bloomberg
As the Trump administration nears its one-year mark, White House officials are touting cuts to regulations as one of their top achievements.
“In the history of our country, no president, during their entire term, has cut more regulations than we’ve cut,” President Donald Trump said last month. His Press Secretary Sarah Sanders puts the total at nearly 1,000, an astounding accomplishment for the notoriously slow-moving federal bureaucracy.