Trump Plays Up Deregulatory Moves, Touts $50 Billion in Savings (1)

President Donald Trump called fiscal 2019 another wildly successful year for his administration’s deregulatory mission and touted more than $50 billion in total savings, a claim law professors and regulatory analysts deem true in some ways and exaggerated or false in others.

Federal agencies took 150 deregulatory actions during fiscal 2019, which ended Sept. 30. They also issued 35 new, economically significant regulations, the White House regulatory office said in a report released Dec. 6.

“Our regulatory reform efforts are delivering prosperity to forgotten men, women and children of America,” Trump said at a White House meeting with Cabinet officials ...