A book of federal rules and regulations was expanded by 45 percent in 2021, according to a new report from the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI).
Last year, the Biden administration added 4,429 new rules (pdf) to the Federal Register, a public record containing regulatory documents for general applicability and legal effect. The last time this figure exceeded 4,400 was in 1999, when the Clinton administration introduced 4,684 federal rules and regulations.
The CEI, a libertarian-leaning think tank, noted that it had been challenging to understand Biden’s rule-making efforts, mainly because of his campaign to shut down Trump-era transparency programs and slow the accounting process in the Federal Register….