This is a big week for the executive branch of the federal government. Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order entitled “Comprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch” and this morning CEI released my colleague Wayne Crews' newest study on regulatory reform, Mapping Washington's Lawlessness: An Inventory of “Regulatory Dark Matter.”
The new directive from the White House puts the director of the Office of Management and Budget in charge of creating a plan for merging, streamlining, eliminating, and otherwise reorganizing all of the cabinet departments, agencies, and programs reporting to the president. That's a big job. The fact that it's so big, however, is the clearest argument for why it's also necessary. As CEI president Kent Lassman said yesterday:
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