President Donald Trump is stepping up his administration’s aggressive deregulatory agenda, issuing a memorandum requiring the repeal of OSHA and other agency rules that officials deem “unlawful” under recent Supreme Court precedents while also issuing ordering several agencies to begin considering a “sunset” of rules related to energy production.
September 16, 2026
President Donald Trump is instructing OSHA and other agencies to develop a list of existing regulations that could be targeted for repeal if they meet one of over half a dozen criteria defined as inconsistent with administration policy, while also directing officials to use “enforcement discretion” not to implement many of those rules in the meantime.
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The Office of Management & Budget (OMB) has finalized the first major update to its cost-benefit review guide in two decades, including changes that aim to put new emphasis on the distributional effects of regulations on disadvantaged populations.
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Democrats are poised to release their own proposed “omnibus” fiscal year 2023 spending bill for OSHA and other agencies on Dec. 12, signaling a possible impasse in negotiations with Republicans on a deal amid a GOP push to cut non-defense spending following Democrats’ passage of a massive party-line spending bill earlier this year.
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The Office of Management & Budget (OMB) has again found that the benefits of OSHA, EPA and other agencies' rules vastly exceed their costs, but the draft report issued late last week also indicates that the Trump administration is considering revising its accounting methods for rules in ways that could trim their estimated benefits in the future.
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Touting successful efforts to repeal dozens of rules from EPA, OSHA and other agencies in 2017, President Donald Trump and other top officials are pledging to step up such efforts in 2018, including calling for agencies to repeal three existing rules for every new measure issued, rather than the current two-for-one requirement.
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New guidance implementing President Donald Trump's deregulatory order underscores how difficult it will be for OSHA to issue new rules without immediate statutory or judicial deadlines, while facing repeated White House consultations, new regulatory assessment burdens, complex cost offset requirements and other hurdles, sources say.
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