Small business owners as he signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to repeal two existing regulations for every new one issued. in this comes as republicans in congress begin the work of repealing a flurry of so-called midnight regulations passed by the obama administration in its final months. we re back with dan henninger, colin levy and kim strassel. so, kim, this is a big part of the republican trump economic growth strategy. yeah. and one of the smartest ones. the amount that the economy suffers under the regulatory regime that we have now, this was the biggest damage that barack obama did to the country. you can look at the health care law and dodd-frank and plenty of other things that were very hard on business. but overall it was the regulatory burden. and the way that trump is going about doing in this as well is one of the quickest and most efficient ways to make sure the
Attention of the administrative agencies and say, well, looking to see what can they repeal if they do want to issue a new regulation. so it ll impose a discipline on regulators. yeah. and be it forces them to have a conversation and talk about these regulations in these terms if they re going to try to propose them. we should make a couple of distinctions though. the order does not apply to independent agencies like the securities and exchange commission or the national labor relations board which trump is going to get control of. it does mainly apply to, say, the department of labor which andy puzder is coming in to take over, and that is one of the great sources paul: but the environmental protection agency, yeah, which is a huge source of problems, kim. now, what s gown on in the house? they going on in the house? the senate is going to use something called the congressional review act which was something that was palszed under the gingrich congress. most americans probably h
You huh? if we are going to unite and be strong we need a new face to help do that so nothing more than that. kevin mccarthy just minutes after he broke the stunning news to fellow republicans, he s not running for speaker. it threw the house into disarray and left the gop scrambling for options. now, the same forces that shut down the government and took out eric cantor in a shocking election are create diagnose an even bigger headache for speaker john boehner. who will take his job? what does it mean for 2016? and will this pave the way for more disfunction? joique me now is joe scarborough, host of morning joe. joe, very happy to have you on my show. it s great to be here. thank you for having me. you worked in congress.
The republican party has a 29z% approval rating in the latest poll i ve seen. their disapproval rating is massive if you look at the congress itself in the 80s that has a drag on the republican brand. it has a drag on the republican party and going to have a drag on any republican presidential nominee that finally getsz through the crazy process. last question back to where i started. is being speaker of the house the worst job in washington right now? if you run scared, if you play scared it is a horrible job. if you are a strong leader and willing to take everybody on and brick them in saying hey i m on your side but not going to let you drive this car over the cliff, i don t have to be part of awe politically assisted suicide to prove i m a true conservative, basically drop
Speak to many of them are angry and you ve drawn the largest crowds that we ve seen in this political season, 20,000 this week in boston. you ve also said you will endorse the nominee if it is not you. are those people that are angry going to accept you supporting someone if it s not you? would you be, would they turn on you and say you delivered them, sold them out? that s a fair question and then the answer is maybe. this is what i said, as you know i m the longest serving independent in the history of the united states congress and before i made the decision of whether or not to run it was a difficult decision. had to decide do i run as an end pebt? a lot of my supporters said bernie don t cut into the democratic party, run as an independent. i concluded the last thing in the world that i wanted to do was to play a spoiler role. get 5% of the vote, 10%, help elect some right wing republican extremist to be president of the united states, that s what i