McConnell warns of GOP’s 'rule busting' strategy: report

20 November 2024

Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced on Wednesday that the incoming GOP Senate majority is poised to execute its "rule-busting" plans "to rein in Washington bureaucrats' expensive interpretation of the powers over working Americans," Politico reports.

In a statement published to the Senate's website, McConnell noted that Senate Republicans utilized the Congressional Review Act "to scrap a slew of bureaucratic rules after eight years of runaway regulation under the [ex-President Barack] Obama Administration — and the GOP lawmakers plan to do the same with President Joe Biden's administration rules.

Politico reports, "The CRA allows Congress to undo rules issued within a certain amount of time. Only simple majority votes are required in the House and Senate, and the president's signature. A number of recently issued rules or upcoming Biden administration actions are vulnerable."

The Senate GOP leader told the news outlet, "Under the Biden administration, Democrats have worked relentlessly to resurrect the Obama administration's regulatory regime, from student loan socialism to job-killing energy policies to blatant infringements on property rights."

Politico notes, "In 2017, with a new governing "trifecta," Republicans undid more than a dozen Obama regulations, including a coal mining pollution rule."

Politico's full report is available here.

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