President-elect Donald Trump’s second administration will have a running start on regulatory reform thanks to the experience of his first. A few key moves will go a long way toward taming the administrative state.
No doubt Trump will begin by freezing in-progress rules pending review. Trump can improve on precedent by extending this order to the so-called “independent agencies,” such as the Federal Trade Commission. After all, it was Trump who was elected and is ultimately “responsible for the actions of the Executive Branch,” as the Supreme Court put it in Free Enterprise Fund v. PCAOB. Dissenting agency heads are welcome to resign or else be removed.
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