This is a full-scale assault on the federal rulebook.

President Trump’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs has released the 2026 regulatory plan, and it goes after 702 deregulatory actions across the federal government.

The projected savings figure attached to that number is enormous: $1.5 trillion.

That is a jump from 482 actions in the 2025 plan. The administrative state that Democrats spent years building is now the target, and the numbers show the team is not slowing down.

Fox Business reported on July 6 that the Trump administration laid out a sweeping plan to eliminate more than 700 rules, with the 2026 regulatory plan covering 702 deregulatory actions and an estimated $1.5 trillion in savings.

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Mark Paoletta, the general counsel performing the duties of OIRA administrator, told Fox Business the North Star of the plan is improving the lives of Americans, and that it promotes economic growth, jobs, and affordability.

Paoletta said the fiscal 2025 deregulatory work yielded $211.8 billion in cost savings, and that fiscal 2026 is projected to go far beyond that with the $1.5 trillion figure.

The examples are exactly the kind of federal overreach families feel in their wallets.

The EPA is reconsidering Biden-era pollution standards for light- and medium-duty vehicles and repealing carbon pollution standards on fossil fuel power plants.

The USDA is proposing changes to school meal nutrition standards. The Labor Department is rethinking rules on independent contractors and retirement investment advice.

The official backbone comes straight from OIRA itself.

The OIRA introduction to the 2026 Unified Regulatory Agenda and Regulatory Plan says the administration is continuing to put America and Americans first, and it confirms the $211.8 billion in fiscal 2025 savings and the record-setting $1.5 trillion projected for fiscal 2026.

The document lays out the goals in plain terms: promote liberty, unleash American energy dominance, preserve the products consumers love, and eradicate DEI ideology from federal regulations.

It also calls out the way Washington told Americans which cars they could drive and which appliances they could use.

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The plan pledges to continue President Trump’s restoration of immigration law and sealing of the border, end DEI in federal regulations, and restore sanity to government operations.

This did not come out of nowhere. It builds on a fight the administration has been waging all year.

The White House announced in February 2026 the full revocation of the Obama-era Endangerment Finding and the consumer mandates tied to it, calling it the single largest deregulatory action in American history.

That release tied the move directly to the 2009 Endangerment Finding, the Obama-era determination used to justify a web of greenhouse-gas regulations across vehicles, power plants, energy production, and consumer choice.

The White House said the action dismantled a regulatory foundation used to impose more than $1.3 trillion in burdens on families, businesses, and consumers.

It also pointed to projected relief for drivers, including average savings of more than $2,400 on new cars, SUVs, and trucks, along with lower transportation and trucking costs that could ripple into everyday goods.

Put the pieces together and you see the strategy. Kill the finding that justified the rules, then go rule by rule through the agencies that built their power on it.

The savings numbers are projections, not money already banked. That work has to move through the agencies and survive the fights ahead.

But the direction is clear, and it is a reversal of everything the left spent the last decade building.

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Democrats stood up a Washington machine that regulates the car in your driveway, the appliances in your kitchen, and the lunch on your kid’s tray. President Trump’s team is taking a chainsaw to that rulebook, one rule at a time, all 702 of them.

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.

 

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