The first 100 days of the deregulation of President Trump

The first 100 days of a presidency have long thought as windows in the probable achievements of an administration. President Donald J. Trump's second term was defined by the speed and scope of his use of the executive authority. By using executive regulations, presidential memoranda and proclamations, President Trump has signaled his intention to rule through the directive to pursue a deregulation agenda immediately.

President Trump at the beginning of May signed 143 Executive regulations, including those issued by President Biden, who restrict the use of Dei programs, withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization and strengthen the rights as part of the second change. He revoked the security checks for lawyers in selected law firms and released numerous agency officials and government agents, including the general inspectors, who supervise audits in more than half a dozen main departments. He has enabled Elon Musk to lead the efforts of the Department of Government Efficiency, which has stopped paying for numerous government contracts and has effectively hollowed out certain government agencies such as the US Agency for International Development and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. From May 2025, at least 135 court findings stopped the administration's lawsuit.

In the area of ​​regulatory policy, the administration has taken numerous government measures to pursue its political goals. These measures have included the following:

• Executive Order 14.192 urges the agencies to identify at least 10 existing regulations or guidelines that are to be added to each new one;
• Executive Order 14.215, which uses the white house's review process on independent agencies; And
• Executive Order 14.219 calls on the agencies to visit their legal permits again.

In addition to numerous essential guidelines and priorities of the administration, which aim to reduce regulatory surveillance in questions that are as different as climate change, cryptocurrency and discrimination due to the employment relationship.

All presidents used the executive authority to advance their agendas. President Trump's approach, however, is in particular that of his predecessor of his government in the first 100 days. Legal scientists have criticized the administration to avoid long-standing norms of political design, the powers reserved for the US congress and have taken steps that are incompatible with fundamental in-laws.

In this series in The regulatory reviewLeading scientists check the substance and the pace of the executive measures by President Trump in connection with regulatory and regulatory authorities in the first 100 days of his second term. The essays presented in this series examine important questions that have been raised by some of the most important regulatory guidelines by President Trump, including their challenges to the independence of the agency, the expansion of the presidential control via the benefit-cost analysis and the ideological values ​​that promote the deregulation efforts of the administration. Together, these scientists offer promptly insights into the efforts of the administration to consolidate the presidential authority via the regulatory directive, sometimes against the grain of long -standing legal and administrative norms.

This series contains essays from the following participants: Susan Dudley from George Washington Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration; Roger Nober from George Washington Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration; Richard J. Pierce, Jr. from George Washington University Law School; Lisa Robinson by Harvard Th Chan School of Public Health; and Rena Steinzor from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.

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About direct exercises of presidential power

May 5, 2025 | Richard J. Pierce, Jr., George Washington University Law School

Countless questions about the role of the congress and the Supreme Court when checking the presidential power.

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Analysis of the regulatory benefit-cost analysis as part of the Trump administration

May 6, 2025 | Lisa A. Robinson, Harvard Th Chan School of Public Health

President Trump's deregulatory push will burden the analysis of the use of performance and take concerns about the future in terms of quality.

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In the middle of the standard sludge there is a certain shelf life

May 7, 2025 | Susan Dudley, George Washington Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration

President Trump has issued dramatic deregulation commands, but some normality remains.

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The man behind the Trump deregulative throne

May 8, 2025 | Rena Steinzor, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

The influence of Russell Vougge on the second Trump government cannot be ignored.

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When is an independent agency independent?

May 8, 2025 | Roger Nober, George Washington Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration

A new executive regulation can eliminate independence of independent supervisory authorities.