President Donald Trump has offered federal agencies a regulatory 2-for-1 deal they can’t refuse… Trump’s latest executive order, signed Monday, cracks down on federal regulations under the guise of helping small business, requiring that two regulations be slashed for every new one that is undertaken.
There are a lot of questions about how Trump’s executive order will be implemented across the federal government. Much will depend on how agencies interpret it in coming months. It remains to be seen whether agencies will have the ability to amend existing regulations without having to identify rules to cut.
Back in July, the rare congressional demonstration of bipartisanship that became the GMO labeling bill instructed USDA to come up with regulations governing disclosure of genetically modified ingredients. Many in the food and agriculture industries lobbied aggressively for federal preemption to spare them from the expenses that a patchwork of state labeling standards would have presented. The law gives USDA two years to draw up those rules, but now that task will be a much heavier lift, as USDA will have to eliminate two regulations to make it happen.
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