Wow, Did Joe Biden Go On A Regulation Tear This Week

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President Joe Biden may have just had one of the most productive weeks of his presidency, although it’s not clear how many Americans noticed ― or how many grasp what it says about the stakes of the November election.

In the span of less than five days, the Biden administration issued more than a half-dozen major regulations with the potential to affect many millions of Americans —and, arguably, the future of the planetas well.

None of these announcements came as a surprise. All of the new regulations are final versions of rules that have been in the works for years. The impetus for rolling them out this week is the calendar and a law called the Congressional Review Act, which gives Congress a few months’ time to rescind new rules the White House implements.

By issuing these new rules now, the Biden administration is protecting them from the Congress that takes office in January 2025 ― i.e., after the next election, when Republicans hostile to these regulations might gain control of both chambers.

But finalizing the rules now is still no guarantee they will stay on the books. If Donald Trump becomes president, he could issue new regulations that reverse Biden’s. The process would take some time, but it would be well within his powers. Biden did the same to many of Trump’s regulations upon taking office, just as Trump once did to Barack Obama’s.

Trump could also resume his project of packing the courts with conservatives on a mission to shrink the regulatory state. As it is, several of Biden’s new rules might not survive scrutiny from the Supreme Court, where a (now) 6-to-3 conservative majority has been hacking away at the