President Obama has issued an executive order requiring federal agencies to assess the cumulative economic impacts of existing rules that are selected for review under the administration's ongoing burden-reduction effort and to prioritize reforms to reduce those burdens, a stronger requirement than past suggestions but one that appears to fall short of critics' calls to assess the cumulative effects of new rules. While Obama's May 10 executive order stops short of imposing economic review requirements on new rules, the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) issued a May 10 report in co
December 29, 2025