President Trump Friday issued another Executive Order affecting federal regulations requiring each agency to establish Regulatory Reform Task Forces to evaluate existing regulations to identify costly, unneeded and unnecessary regulations.

This Order is in addition to his earlier Executive Order requiring agencies to eliminate two existing regulations for every new regulation they promulgate.

Click Here for the announcement.  Click Here for the text of the Order.

To keep up with all of President Trump’s executive actions, visit the Presidential Actions webpage.

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[Posted: Feb. 24, 2017]

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