DOGE Initiative Targets Overreaching Federal Rules
Published Date: 2/25/2025
Presidential Document
Summary
The President is ordering federal agencies to review and cut back on rules that go beyond their legal power or hurt businesses and innovation. This means agencies have 60 days to find and fix or remove unfair or costly regulations, especially those that slow down progress or burden small businesses. The goal is to make government work better, save money, and protect our Constitution.
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 4 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Review and Remove Costly Rules
Federal agencies must identify regulations that "impose significant costs upon private parties that are not outweighed by public benefits" and, within 60 days of February 19, 2025, give lists of those regulations to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs so they can be rescinded or changed. This targets rules agencies control and may lead to removing rules that cost you or your business money.
De-Prioritizing Enforcement of Weak Rules
Agencies are ordered to generally de-prioritize enforcing regulations that are not based on the "best reading" of a statute or that exceed federal constitutional power, and may, on a case-by-case basis, direct termination of enforcement proceedings that do not comply with law or Administration policy. This direction is effective as of February 19, 2025.
Priority Review for Small-Business Burdens
Agencies must identify regulations that "impose undue burdens on small business and impede private enterprise and entrepreneurship" and prioritize reviewing those rules. Agencies have 60 days from February 19, 2025 to provide the required lists to OIRA.
Targeting Rules That Impede Innovation
The order directs agencies to identify regulations that "harm the national interest by significantly and unjustifiably impeding technological innovation, infrastructure development, disaster response, inflation reduction, research and development, economic development, energy production, land use, and foreign policy objectives" and to seek to rescind or modify them. Agencies must provide these identified classes to OIRA within 60 days of February 19, 2025.
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