In 2025, President Trump is targeting regulations across various government agencies and industries .
Here’s a breakdown:
- Government Efficiency and Workforce Optimization: Guidance on agency RIF (Reduction in Force) and reorganization plans, as requested by implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency Workforce Optimization Initiative .
- Financial Sector: The Treasury Department, including the IRS and FinCEN, is eliminating 15 rules and guidance materials considered unnecessary, duplicative and costly . This is in addition to rules rescinded by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) .
- Welfare Reform: The Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services is working with the Trump Administration to cut back on unnecessary government spending and address deficiencies and duplication in the welfare system .
- Department of Veterans Affairs (VA): The VA is terminating 585 non-mission-critical or duplicative contracts to better focus resources .
- Immigration: A series of executive orders related to immigration were executed .
- Reciprocal Tariffs: President Trump declared a national emergency to address trade imbalances and impose reciprocal tariffs on countries with unfair trade practices . The aim is to level the playing field for American businesses, protect workers, and encourage reshoring of manufacturing .
- Merit-Based Admissions: Universities are required to adopt merit-based admissions policies, ceasing preferences based on race, color, or national origin .
- Energy Sector: Reviewing and potentially suspending, revising, or rescinding regulations that burden domestic energy resource development, including oil, natural gas, coal, hydropower, biofuels, critical minerals, and nuclear energy . The aim is to encourage energy exploration and production, establish the U.S. as a leading producer of non-fuel minerals, and ensure an abundant energy supply .
- Environmental Regulations: Revoking several executive orders related to climate change and environmental justice . This includes disbanding the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases and addressing the “social cost of carbon” calculation .
- Permitting Process: Expediting and simplifying the permitting process for energy and infrastructure projects . This involves revising NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) regulations to prioritize efficiency and certainty .
- “Green New Deal” Initiatives: Pausing the disbursement of funds from the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act related to green initiatives . This includes reviewing processes for grants and loans related to these funds .
- Mining: Identifying and revising or rescinding agency actions that unduly burden the domestic mining and processing of non-fuel minerals .
- Anticompetitive Regulations: Eliminating anticompetitive state and federal laws and regulations that undermine free market competition . This includes targeting regulations in housing, transportation, food and agriculture, healthcare, and energy .
- DEI Initiatives: Ending DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) offices and initiatives across the federal government and potentially in the private sector .
- Maritime Sector: Taking action to address China’s dominance in the maritime, logistics, and shipbuilding sectors . This includes considering fees and restrictions on certain maritime transport services .
- EPA Deregulation: Undertaking multiple actions to reduce and eliminate regulations .for world news click www.eminentnews.com
