© VoxGotta mind the regulations in deregulation!
One year ago, the Trump administration's
deregulatory push was in full swing. The administration was preparing a proposed rule to
repeal the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) regulation, and to delay and
repeal the restriction of methane emissions from oil and gas extraction on public lands. Surely these well-publicized deregulatory initiatives which the Trump administration has made a big show of taking credit for have taken effect by now.
Well, not exactly. The WOTUS proposal has not been finalized, and the methane extraction rule is tied up in a
thicket of court cases.
President Trump's record on deregulation has gotten a great deal of attention. He
brags about it regularly. It is often placed alongside the tax cuts passed by Congress when his
chief accomplishments are recounted. To listen to the president (or the media), one would think that thousands of regulations were repealed.
But as the WOTUS and Bureau of Land Management extraction rules indicate,
the actual extent of deregulation is much more limited. At the same time, other moves to dismantle the "administrative state" have quietly been more effective.
Comment: Lies, hypocrisy and outright propaganda. Here's Haley's UN speech, if you can stomach it:
And here's the antidote: Killing Gaza - a documentary