Overview
- The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs published the 2026 unified regulatory plan in early July listing 702 deregulatory actions and projecting about $1.5 trillion in net savings for the economy.
- Following the June 29 Supreme Court ruling that lets the President remove agency heads at will, agencies have increased coordination with OIRA, giving the White House greater leverage over rulemaking.
- The agenda explicitly targets key climate safeguards, including a proposal to repeal the 2009 greenhouse-gas “endangerment finding” and reconsideration of Biden-era vehicle and power-plant pollution standards.
- Several agency-specific changes are listed as planned or under review, such as EEOC limits on the disparate-impact standard, USDA proposals to tighten SNAP rules for retailers and work requirements, FDA delays on new nutrition-label rules, and Commerce plans for AI export controls.
- Advocacy groups and policy analysts dispute the administration’s $1.5 trillion savings estimate, saying the plan understates benefits from environmental, safety and consumer protections and noting that many actions are at the proposal or reconsideration stage and not final until after the fiscal year ends in September.