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Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 9:59 pm Somebody's afraid of ugly lights.

neonzx wrote: ↑Tue Mar 14, 2023 9:53 am Well, to be fair.. Pence deserves some responsibility. He agreed to be tfg's puppet. He's not a smart man.

Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Tue Mar 14, 2023 2:38 pm "Had he just done the illegal thing I asked him to do, I wouldn't have tried to have him whacked by an angry mob, so really, it's all his fault."

Examining some of Trump’s deregulation efforts: Lessons from the Brookings Regulatory Tracker

Philip A. Wallach and Kelly Kennedy
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

By 2017, nearly all Republican politicians, including President Trump, believed that the Obama administration had overreached in the sphere of regulatory policy, with scores of regulations in need of rolling back. Indeed, deregulation was a central priority of Trump’s administration. “We slashed more job-killing regulations than any administration had ever done before,” Trump claimed in his farewell address. Putting aside all questions of whether Trump’s deregulatory agenda was good or bad for the country, it seems that it should be rather straightforward to determine whether this claim is accurate. To what extent did the Trump administration succeed in reversing the regulatory achievements of Barack Obama and his predecessors, and to what extent should such claims be understood as bluster?

Answering this question turns out to be harder than it first seems. There is no question that the Trump administration added far fewer new regulations than its predecessors. By the reckoning of the regulatory researchers at the American Action Forum, whose work is based on cost reports in agencies’ own regulatory impact analyses, on average the Trump administration imposed annual net regulatory costs of $10 billion, compared to $111 billion for the Obama administration and $43 billion for the George W. Bush administration. But wiping existing regulations from the law books is considerably more difficult than declining to take new actions. Most deregulatory actions must go through the same procedures as regulatory actions, including a notice and comment process. Most crucially, agency final actions are generally subject to judicial review, and the majority of the Trump administration’s important deregulatory actions were litigated immediately.

Those legal challenges are what make it difficult to assess the Trump administration’s deregulatory actions. The administration’s own reckonings of cost savings from deregulation—which they put at $198.6 billion by the end of 2020—were not adjusted to take account of those deregulatory actions that were struck down in court, which was a remarkably regular occurrence. The Institute for Policy Integrity tracked the Trump administration’s record in court throughout Trump’s four years in office. By its count, the administration was “successful” 58 times, and “unsuccessful” 200 times. That is, just 22 percent of the Trump administration’s regulatory or deregulatory actions that were challenged in court came through the legal process unscathed.

The Brookings Institution Center on Regulation and Markets maintained its own Tracker of the Trump administration’s regulatory changes over the course of the administration, and it provides a valuable perspective on how successful these efforts were. Rather than attempting a comprehensive accounting of all administration actions, the Brookings Tracker primarily focused on particularly significant actions that furthered the administration’s deregulatory agenda. A team of Brookings staff went through every issue of the Federal Register to find relevant, impactful actions aimed at deregulation and produced summaries of the actions.




https://www.brookings.edu/research/exam ... y-tracker/

Man of the People

Volkonski wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 4:54 pm Ron Filipkowski
@ronfilipkowski@bird.makeup
Trump told Breitbart that he decided not to use ‘Meatball Ron’ Desantis because he thought it sounded low class and he is too high class to use a nickname like that.

For real.

neonzx wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 5:13 pmI really don't get his using insulting names/slurs for people?

Might be interviewing new attorneys after his guy’s appearance on Ari Melber last night.

neonzx wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 5:13 pm

Volkonski wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 4:54 pm Ron Filipkowski
@ronfilipkowski@bird.makeup
Trump told Breitbart that he decided not to use ‘Meatball Ron’ Desantis because he thought it sounded low class and he is too high class to use a nickname like that.

For real.

Sounds reasonable.

I really don't get his using insulting names/slurs for people? It's like junior high/middle school. Most of us grew up at some point, didn't we? For him, it never stopped.Poop-head!

poplove wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 6:59 pm

neonzx wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 5:13 pm

Volkonski wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 4:54 pm Ron Filipkowski
@ronfilipkowski@bird.makeup
Trump told Breitbart that he decided not to use ‘Meatball Ron’ Desantis because he thought it sounded low class and he is too high class to use a nickname like that.

For real.

Sounds reasonable.

I really don't get his using insulting names/slurs for people? It's like junior high/middle school. Most of us grew up at some point, didn't we? For him, it never stopped.Poop-head!

He uses mobster nicknames because he is one.

On the same day Stormy Daniels meets with prosecutors, Trump emphasizes that “length is important for entertainment value.”

Trump has become a hell of a spokesman for the Democratic Party.

Trump says Russia is not a threat, our greatest threat is our American representatives, we need to reevaluate the purpose of NATO, and most of the people in the State Dept, DOD and Intel Services need to be fired so he can put the right people in.

bill_g wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 7:53 am Rut-roh ... NASDAQ delisting Trump's Social Truth holding company. Worthless. Investor's money evaporated. Sheep fleeced and slaughtered.

https://twitter.com/58bugeye/status/1635999025836199936