Trump may need to create more regulations to destroy them

Published December 21, 2024 8:00am ET



President-elect Donald Trump has promised to cut 10 regulations for each new one he creates, but as with many things in government, doing so will be a complicated affair.

“I’m pledging today that in my second term, we will eliminate a minimum of 10 old regulations for every one new regulation,” Trump told the Economic Club of New York in September. “We’ll be able to do that quite easily, actually.”

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