President Donald Trump immediately issued a regulatory freeze on Obama's midnight regulations and removed some of the onerous burdens of Obamacare. Fox News reported the following:
Trump was joined in the Oval Office by Vice President Mike
Pence, Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and other top advisers as he signed the
executive order on former President Barack Obama's signature health law, which
Trump opposed throughout his campaign.
The order, which
noted that Trump intends to seek the law's "prompt repeal," directs
agencies to "minimize the unwarranted economic and regulatory burdens [of
ObamaCare] and prepare to afford the States more flexibility and control to
create a more free and open healthcare market." It also tells agencies to
waive, defer or delay imposing any ObamaCare provisions that impose fiscal
penalties on states, health care providers, families or individuals.
Trump's order
also ordered agency heads to "encourage the development of a free and open
market in interstate commerce for the offering of healthcare services and
health insurance," a key component of Republicans' ObamaCare replacement
plan.
Priebus' memo
says that agencies shouldn't submit any regulations to be published in the
Federal Register unless a Trump-selected agency head approves it. That appears
to mean that some regulations that had been approved by Obama's administration
would be halted. It also freezes any regulations that are already in the
pipeline to be published and allows time for other pending regulations to be
reviewed by Trump's administration.
You know it’s bad when President Trump has to immediately sign
an executive order to stop Obama’s regulatory machine after taking the oath of office.
It’s going to be hand to hand combat trying to clear out these bureaucracies of
lawless progressives.
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