Revocation of Regulatory Reform Orders

New President Biden has revoked a number of former President Trump’s Executive Orders concern regulatory reform:

Sec. 2. Revocation of Orders. Executive Order 13771 of January 30, 2017 (Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs), Executive Order 13777 of February 24, 2017 (Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda), Executive Order 13875 of June 14, 2019 (Evaluating and Improving the Utility of Federal Advisory Committees), Executive Order 13891 of October 9, 2019 (Promoting the Rule of Law Through Improved Agency Guidance Documents), Executive Order 13892 of October 9, 2019 (Promoting the Rule of Law Through Transparency and Fairness in Civil Administrative Enforcement and Adjudication), and Executive Order 13893 of October 10, 2019 (Increasing Government Accountability for Administrative Actions by Reinvigorating Administrative PAYGO), are hereby revoked.

I wrote about E.O. 13771 when it came out.  It directed agency heads to identify for elimination two regulations for every new one issued.  It also directed any new incremental costs associated with new regulations to be offset by the elimination of existing costs associated with at least two prior regulations.  The cost-benefit landscape looks to be changing.