President Joe Biden has turned the town red from all the regulatory tape his agencies have spit out this year.
According to two new reports, Biden has gone around Congress to issue a record number of costly regulations in part out of concern that he might not win reelection and wants to cement in his agenda.
“In April 2024, federal agencies broke records by publishing 66 significant final rules,” said a report from George Washington University’s Regulatory Studies Center. “This number is higher than any previous month during the Biden administration and is nearly five times the average of the preceding 38 months,” said the report.
It attributed the surge to expectations that Congress will review the rules and that former President Donald Trump, who went o …