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Trump is taking on the shadow regulatory state

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President Donald Trump‘s much-anticipated deregulation executive order, signed last week, goes further than anything he did in his first term. Not only does it require agencies to eliminate 10 regulations for every new one, but it also directly targets guidance documents, the unaccountable tools federal bureaucrats have long used to impose regulations without going through formal rulemaking.

And there’s plenty of guidance that needs to go.

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