> Under Chief of Staff Reince Priebus issued a memorandum (pg. 1, pg. 2) asking federal agency heads to postpone or freeze any new or pending regulations, with some exceptions noted in Sec. 3 of the memo.
From the memo:
""" Notify the OMB Director promptly of any regulations that, in your view, should be excluded from the directives ... because those regulations affect critical health, safety, financial, or national security matters ... The OMB Director will review any such notifications and determine whether such conclusion is appropriate under the circumstances. """
I agree that non-elected policymakers have too much power to enact regulations with criminal penalties under force of law, but I feel that this measure will just lead to more policies being labeled "health" or "national security" etc., and not amount to any real reduction in regulation.