No end in sight for regulatory tsunami
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The Biden administration is on a regulatory tear, actively pursuing 2,673 rules in the next 12 months. This unconstrained expansion of the administrative state exacerbates runaway inflation and inhibits recovery from the COVID-19 lockdown.
The Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, a semiannual publication, catalogs the regulatory deeds and ambitions of dozens of executive-branch departments, agencies, commissions, bureaus and boards. Accounting for active, long-term and completed actions, the president’s spring to-do list consists of 3,803 regulatory actions.
Some regulation is necessary to execute the laws, but every federal dictate acts as a stealth tax on the American people and the U.S. economy. And there really is no cause for the federal government to control whether employers collect oral or fluid specimens in drug testing. Or to prescribe electricity standards for every conceivable type of appliance, including icemakers, portable electric spas, ceiling fan light kits and computer-room air conditioners — to name just a few (literally).
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