The Trump administration just published what it’s calling the most ambitious regulatory agenda in American history. And for once, the superlative might actually be warranted.
The Spring 2025 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions revealed 646 finalized deregulatory actions compared to just 5 new regulatory actions. That’s a 129-to-1 ratio, which doesn’t just clear the administration’s own stated goal of 10-to-1. It laps it roughly 13 times over.
The numbers behind the regulatory rollback
Of the 778 active items in the agenda, 76% were classified as deregulatory. OMB Director Russ Vought framed the effort as historically unprecedented, and the raw numbers make it hard to argue otherwise.
The administration pegged net cost savings at $211.8 billion. For context, that’s roughly the annual GDP of a mid-sized European country like Greece.
