Federal rules and regulations, the swamp’s tax on U.S. companies and citizens, have surged over 45% under President Joe Biden.
A new tally from the regulation czar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Wayne Crews, showed that Biden’s team has issued 4,429 rules, a 45.8% jump in paperwork over former President Donald Trump’s final year.
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The price impact is unclear, he said, though likely much higher than it was under Trump, who sometimes used new rules to kill off Obama-era regulations.
Crews has spent a career sniffing out federal regulations and calculating the impact they have. In a new posting shared with Secrets, Crews said it has been difficult to uncover the extent of Biden’s plans.
He cited the president’s efforts to close Trump-era transparency programs and slow accounting in the Federal Register.
Initially, he said it appeared that Biden had issued fewer regulations. But as he dug deeper, Crews said a different picture emerged.
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“Biden issued fewer rules than Trump did. That would seem counterintuitive, although not inexplicable; it takes time to issue new rules,” he wrote, adding, “Still, Biden’s ‘whole of government’ agenda would inevitably make one wonder where all the rules are. Well, it turns out they’re on the newer white-paper compilation charts. While the online database shows 3,257 rules, the document count in the newer roundup is actually 4,429, a 45.8% increase over Trump.”
Crews added, “The implications of all this — while given the current state of transparency, one ought not expect it to be reflected in the online database by year-end 2022, nor even early 2023 — are that the spending and intervention torrent embodied in Biden’s American Rescue Plan ‘infrastructure,’ ‘innovation,’ and ‘inflation’ mega-bills will translate into greater rule counts in coming months and years. If the federal government expands by a large percentage, more rules and sub-regulatory guidance documents and other regulatory dark matter are imminent.”
