Trump orders agencies to create regulatory reform task forces

The White House has announced that President Trump has signed an Executive Order requiring every Executive Branch agency to establish a Regulatory Reform Task Force to eliminate red tape. The task forces are to be charged with making recommendations to the agency head regarding the repeal, replacement, or modification, consistent with applicable law, of regulations that:

• eliminate jobs, or inhibit job creation
• are outdated, unnecessary, or ineffective
• impose costs that exceed benefits
• create a serious inconsistency or otherwise interfere with regulatory reform initiatives and policies
• that rely in whole or in part on data, information, or methods that are not publicly available or that are insufficiently transparent to meet the standard for reproducibility
• derive from or implement Executive Orders or other Presidential directives that have been subsequently rescinded or substantially modified