Trump’s deregulatory triumphs and the RFK Jr. problem

Published February 28, 2026 7:00am ET



In 2024, then-candidate Donald Trump pledged to take a wrecking ball to the regulatory state — promising on Day One to take the “most aggressive regulatory reduction” in history. He followed through shortly after taking office by signing an executive order titled Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation.

And recently, the administration announced, perhaps, the single biggest deregulatory action in recent memory: revoking the Obama-era Environmental Protection Agency “Endangerment Finding” for greenhouse gas emissions.

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