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Of course, he did. All the better to hide regulations costing us billions.
It is who and what this administration is. Deceptive at every turn. And your right to know, grows less and less.
A government of the bureaucracy, for the bureaucracy, by the bureaucracy.
An executive order signed by President Biden makes it easier for agencies to impose regulatory changes without review or public scrutiny.
President Biden signed the order on April 6. It significantly alters how the government reviews major regulatory changes by allowing some to escape cost-benefit analysis and making it more difficult to track them.
The Biden rule doubled the threshold for regulations to qualify for special government review based on estimated economic impact, from $100 million to $200 million.
Mr. Biden cited inflation to justify the change.
He tasked the government with altering the way it conducts cost-benefit analyses of regulation changes. Those proposed changes, which have not been finalized, would make the government less objective and more likely to advocate for regulations issued by the administration, economic analysts said.
Ryan Young, a senior economist at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said results of Mr. Biden’s executive order and the other proposed changes include “fewer challenges to rules, less transparency and a freer hand for the executive branch to act without the legislature and the judiciary checking them.”
Mr. Young said the $200 million threshold is already shielding new regulations from scrutiny. He calculates that the Biden administration is on pace this year to issue only 18 economically significant rules that will meet the $200 million threshold and thus require additional review and transparency. Last year, under the $100 million threshold, the administration issued 43 rules.
“That’s a fair amount of rules that are now going to be flying under the radar,” said Mr. Young, who tracks federal regulations.
It’s tougher to track rules dodging the extra analysis because any regulation with an economic impact of less than $200 million won’t be flagged in the Federal Register.
“We may hear about it, and we may not,” Mr. Young said.
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www.washingtontimes.com
It is who and what this administration is. Deceptive at every turn. And your right to know, grows less and less.
A government of the bureaucracy, for the bureaucracy, by the bureaucracy.
An executive order signed by President Biden makes it easier for agencies to impose regulatory changes without review or public scrutiny.
President Biden signed the order on April 6. It significantly alters how the government reviews major regulatory changes by allowing some to escape cost-benefit analysis and making it more difficult to track them.
The Biden rule doubled the threshold for regulations to qualify for special government review based on estimated economic impact, from $100 million to $200 million.
Mr. Biden cited inflation to justify the change.
He tasked the government with altering the way it conducts cost-benefit analyses of regulation changes. Those proposed changes, which have not been finalized, would make the government less objective and more likely to advocate for regulations issued by the administration, economic analysts said.
Ryan Young, a senior economist at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said results of Mr. Biden’s executive order and the other proposed changes include “fewer challenges to rules, less transparency and a freer hand for the executive branch to act without the legislature and the judiciary checking them.”
Mr. Young said the $200 million threshold is already shielding new regulations from scrutiny. He calculates that the Biden administration is on pace this year to issue only 18 economically significant rules that will meet the $200 million threshold and thus require additional review and transparency. Last year, under the $100 million threshold, the administration issued 43 rules.
“That’s a fair amount of rules that are now going to be flying under the radar,” said Mr. Young, who tracks federal regulations.
It’s tougher to track rules dodging the extra analysis because any regulation with an economic impact of less than $200 million won’t be flagged in the Federal Register.
“We may hear about it, and we may not,” Mr. Young said.
...
Biden changes rules to dodge scrutiny of new regulations
An executive order signed by President Biden makes it easier for agencies to impose regulatory changes without review or public scrutiny.
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