The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Clyde Wayne Crews measures and studies the impact of regulations issued by the U.S. federal government. Over the past year, Crews has had to become something of a detective because the numbers published in the Federal Register‘s online database weren’t adding up.
He found a problem in the database’s count of new rules issued by the Biden administration since it came into power. The problem is it is undercounting the Biden administration’s new rules by a large amount, making it appear they’ve issued fewer regulations than President Trump had. If true, since President Trump had made reducing burdensome
