The Trump administration is stepping up its efforts to cut red tape across the federal government, releasing a regulatory plan that would eliminate 702 existing administrative rules.
The reductions published on Friday set a record for the number of deregulatory actions under consideration in a White House semiannual agenda plan. It’s also about twice as many as were in motion at any given time in Donald Trump’s first presidency and comes on top of 752 such regulatory rollbacks finalized or completed since the start of the federal government’s current fiscal year that began on October 1, 2025.
