In its final 16 days, the Obama administration pushed through regulations costing a whopping $24.8 billion, or over $1.55 billion a day, leaving a spending hangover that the Trump administration is still trying to deal with.
By comparison, a new year-end report on regulations from American Action Forum found that in the subsequent 11 months, President Trump and his team have imposed just $5.8 billion in new regulations, or about $16.8 million a day.
“The trend of regulatory activity shifted dramatically in 2017 once President Trump assumed the presidency,†said the review by AAF’s Dan Bosch, director of regulatory policy, and research analyst Dan Goldbeck.
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