[tomder55]

Last year ,before the Repub taking control of the House of Reps . The 4th branch unelected permanent state was already creating new law at a record pace.

According to the WSJ ,2022 alone federal agencies finalized 264 regulations with economic impact, totting up $117.1 billion in net regulatory costs. Another 311 proposed rules are in the pipeline and would cost $191.2 billion when final. Twenty-three of those rules will cost $1 billion each. Regulatory costs to the economy are now reckoned to be at least $2 trillion, or roughly 8% of U.S. gross domestic product in 2021, according to Wayne Crews at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. If you think of regulation as a tax, Mr. Crews notes, it would be larger than the federal income tax and come out to around $14,684 per family. If the cost of U.S. regulation were a country, it would rank a little behind France’s GDP.

Biden’s Regulatory Deluge - WSJ

And that was before the Repubs eeked out a win in the House. If you thought the deep state was going to slow down ;think again.

Career bureaucrats and political appointees create hundreds of laws each year that dictate what Americans can do and must pay for. It is shocking and a far cry from the representative government we think we have . Congress passed 247 laws in 2021 . The unelected regulatory state added another 3,168 rules in the Federal Register.

In the 1st days of Clueless' reign, he reversed Trump attempts at sunshine transparency and opted to let the leviathan work in secrecy.

The White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs is supposed to review new proposed rules and examine costs and benefits. Even the Obama regulatory shop reined in the bureaucracy on occasion. In the Biden White House it’s largely a rubber stamp.

With half of Congress being in the Dem's hands it is unlikely that any regulation will be reversed without a court decision. Last year's slap down of the regulatory state in the West Virginia v. EPA decision is the exception rather than the rule.

[jlisenbe]

2022 alone federal agencies finalized 264 regulations with economic impact, totting up $117.1 billion in net regulatory costs. Another 311 proposed rules are in the pipeline and would cost $191.2 billion when final. Twenty-three of those rules will cost $1 billion each.

Golly, I just keep wondering how we keep getting all of these budget deficits???

Needed: A much smaller government.