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Federal Register page counts and final rules and regulations are rising under Joe Biden. Signs point not merely to a return to pre-Trump levels of intense ...

[Thirteen-point plans and the like](https://www.forbes.com/sites/waynecrews/2020/05/10/a-13-point-trump-agenda-for-economic-stimulus-by-reforming-regulation/?sh=77789654a7a2) should become the order of the day. [subset of rules known as “signfiicant”](https://cei.org/blog/rules-and-regulations-increase-45-percent-during-biden-administration/) and “economically significant,” as well as at [rules affecting small business](https://cei.org/blog/setting-a-baseline-for-proposed-rules-affecting-small-business/). Again, this is a situation [Congress should address in a broader campaign for regulatory reform, such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s (yep that’s my organzation) own “Free to Prosper” Agenda for lawmakers](https://cei.org/studies/free-to-prosper-118/). [Options range](https://www.forbes.com/sites/waynecrews/2020/11/11/some-trump-executive-orders-on-regulation-need-to-be-kept-no-matter-what/?sh=62d3cd7951ff) from a specialized [office](https://www.forbes.com/sites/waynecrews/2021/10/25/congress-should-charter-an-office-of-no-to-counter-federal-overregulation/) chartered to counter regulatory orthodoxy and the pretense of “market failure” at every juncture, to a [regulatory budget](https://republicans-budget.house.gov/uploadedfiles/crewstestimony.pdf), to forcing Congress to approve significant or controversial rules before they bind anyone. These significant rule counts are apt to rise as the chickens come home to roost [on the various legislative enactments of the past three years](https://www.forbes.com/sites/waynecrews/2022/06/01/inflation-and-bidens-whole-of-government-price-hike/) on the likes of infrastructure, inflation and “innovation.” The shocking and arrogant extent of Biden’s “Whole-of-Government” approach to transformation of the United States is detailed in the [2022 edition](https://cei.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/10000_Commandments_2022.pdf) of Ten Thousand Commandments. For example, the 3,038 rules of Trump in 2020 have been noted; per the online database, however (superceded by the historical tables), the figure remains depicted as 3,353 (as of now, but watch out), seemingly ascribing more rules to Trump than he may actually have had. Of Biden’s 3,168 rules completed 2022, [257 were deemed “significant” by agencies and the Office of Management and Budget (while 906 rules overall affect small business](http://www.tenthousandcommandments.com/p/federal-regulation-updates.html)). Even as of today, the online Federal Register database registers 3,257 rules for 2021 (a year ago). Even Trump’s bloated final Federal Register of 2020 contained a low rule count compared to everything else one observes historically (”only” 3,038 rules). That was the elephant (and donkey) in the room during Trump’s last year. (My own [adjusted tally](https://www.tenthousandcommandments.com) is already slightly lower, at 80,597 pages.)