Following the beginning of the 115th Congress and President-elect Trump’s inauguration, the legislative and executive branches will have at their disposal a number of legal methods for following through on their deregulation pledges. Efforts to alter or abandon regulations will fall into three buckets: rules under development, rules made final recently, and longer-standing rules.

Executive Branch Agenda -

Rules Under Development -

A Trump Administration can withdraw any proposed rule. As a result, depending on the urgency of a rule, including statutes requiring rulemakings within a certain period of time, regulations not made final before the end of the Obama Administration could be abandoned altogether.