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.
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Among the measures that the administration plans to scrap by the end of the fiscal year in September: Environmental review requirements for energy projects, energy efficiency standards and rules that promote diversity, equity and inclusion.
In total, the administration projects $1.5 trillion in savings for the economy through all the regulations it plans to have terminated by end of September. The lion’s share of the expected savings stems from a single action underpinning the climate policies of Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, repealing the 2009 “endangerment finding” that greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health and welfare. Trump has claimed that the emissions policies made possible by that finding would cost the economy $1.3 trillion.
Liberal groups have disputed the administration’s projected savings from the rules reductions, however, arguing that the analysis doesn’t fully account for the benefits of environmental, safety and consumer protection regulations.
