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Congress Passes and Trump Signs Four Bills to Terminate Obama-era Regulations
Congress continues to use the Congressional Review Act to end regulations which were put into place under President Obama to benefit citizens and govern corporate behavior, as corporations inherently act for their own financial benefit in spite of any short or long term harm to society.
Promising to "remove every job-killing regulation we can find," Trump said even more regulation-cutting bills were on the way.
Not promised was that corporations, now given free reign again, won't act in the same irresponsible (criminal) ways that have led to global financial collapse, rampant pollution endangering the future of our Planet, and the undoing of the middle class with a larger income disparity between rich and poor everyday.
The GOP continue to use the Congressional Review Act, "a rarely used tool that allows Congress to fast-track a bills to reverse regulations. Before Trump, the law had been used successfully only once in its 21-year history." Half the bills signed thus far have been under this Act.
Trump has now signed a total of seven, a pace that has surprised even experts. "There are several that weren't on my radar at all," said Susan Dudley, director of the Regulatory Studies Center at George Washington University.
The newly canceled rules that will no longer protect our citizens and economy:
- The "Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces" rule, which barred companies from receiving federal contracts if they had a history of violating wage, labor or workplace safety laws.
- A Bureau of Land Management rule known as "Planning 2.0," that gave the federal government a bigger role in land use decisions.
- Two regulations on measuring school performance and teacher training under the Every Student Succeeds Act, a law Obama signed in 2015 with bipartisan support.
Corporations over people. Same story, day after day.