On Thursday, the Director of Office of Management and Budget, Mick Mulvaney, revealed that the Obama Administration had a secret list of regulations during a press briefing at the White House. Director Mulvaney said he first learned of the list 24 hours ago. He explained that the secret list, was referred to as the "Pending List" by the previous administration.
Director Mulvaney went on to say that the list began in 2011 while the Obama Administration was working on a unified agenda. "They just didn't want to tell you about it. They thought it would be bad for their re-election prospects in 2012 so they created a secret list of regs [sic] that weren't disclosed to you folks," Mulvaney told reporters.
According to Director Mulvaney, the Obama Administration put over 6 billion dollars of regulatory burden on the American economy in the last sixth months of Barack Obama's presidency. So far the Trump Administration has cleared 22 million of the previous administration's regulatory burden. "You'll see more of that for the next eight years," Mulvaney promised. He held up a large stack of regulations promulgated by the Obama Administration during President Obama's last week in office for emphasis.
The Trump administration has initiated a 2 for 1 policy on regulations and demanded that regulations place no financial burdens on economic growth. Mulvaney boasted that during the first six months of the Trump Presidency, 860 regulations have been removed or withdrawn. President Obama's "Pending List" has been included in the 860 regulations that have been removed. Director Mulvaney stressed that secret lists of regulations will end effective immediately.
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