President Biden's administration has filled the Federal Register with more pages of regulations than any other agency in history, breaking President Barack Obama's record.
As of December 3, last week, the Biden administration set a federal record for the most Federal Register pages filled in a single year. 96,088. The numbers put the administration on pace to fill more than 100,000 pages by the end of its term.
The previous record was held by President Obama, who racked up 95,894 pages in the final year of his second term.
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The Federal Register, published by the National Archives and Records Administration and overseen by the Office of the Federal Register, publishes new and amended federal regulations daily.
“Federal Register page counts are a very imperfect measure of regulatory burden, but Biden's milestone still highlights the growing scope of federal intervention.”Washington said Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., a research fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit organization based in . “The record-setting 2024 Federal Register is a stark reminder of the scale of the regulatory state, but it’s not done yet.”
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In the final year of President-elect Trump's first term in office, the Federal Register had the fourth-largest number of pages. But Cruz said that number was likely inflated by efforts to repeal rules that require government agencies to issue new rules, as well as emergency response measures for the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile, in 2017, President Trump's first year in office, the fewest pages were added to the Federal Register since President Bill Clinton's administration in 1993, Cruz noted.
Shortly after entering the Oval Office in 2017, President Trump issued Executive Order 13771, starting a new federal rulemaking process that required him to remove two for every one regulation added by his administration. This resulted in net cost savings throughout President Trump's first term, Cruz said.
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President Trump has signaled his intention to expand deregulatory efforts during his second term, pledging to eliminate 10 regulations for every new one added.
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Machalag Kar, director of the American Chamber of Free Enterprise's Legal Action Center, told Fox News Digital that with the incoming Trump administration in place, “a new day has dawned and help is on the way.”
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“For the past four years, [the Biden administration] “The Biden administration has done everything in its power to strangle American free enterprise with a blizzard of unworkable regulations and mandates,” Carr said, adding, “The Biden administration's decision-making powers include political appointees. They have a hostile view of the innovators and businesses that power our economy and believe that: The government knows best.”
Fox News Digital reached out to representatives for Biden and Trump, but did not receive a response in time for publication.
