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

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."

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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."

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Politico's full report is available here.