Executive Order 13771: Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs

| Importance: 6/10 | Status: confirmed

Trump signed EO 13771 on January 30, 2017, establishing a “two-for-one” rule requiring agencies to eliminate two existing regulations for every new regulation, with zero net cost increase. A November 2017 OIRA report claimed agencies achieved a 22-to-1 deregulatory ratio in eight months, saving $8.1 billion. Public Citizen and others sued but were dismissed for lack of standing. Biden rescinded the order on his first day in office, January 20, 2021.

Key Actors

Donald Trump Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) Public Citizen (plaintiff) Natural Resources Defense Council (plaintiff) Judge Randolph D. Moss Joe Biden (rescinded order)

Tags

executive-order regulation deregulation two-for-one-rule regulatory-costs administrative-law

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