Regulatory Reform Results for Fiscal Year 2025

In Regulatory Reform under Executive Order 14192: Final Accounting for Fiscal Year 2025, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs compiles the regulatory reform results from fiscal year 2025. President Trump emphasized the importance of reducing regulatory burdens and directed agencies to eliminate ten regulations for each new one and to cap their total incremental costs in Executive Order 14192 ("Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation," January 31, 2025). Agencies have focused on comprehensive and common-sense regulatory reform, protecting health and safety while eliminating unnecessary costs. These reforms adhere to the longstanding principles and good regulatory practices in Executive Order 12866 ("Regulatory Planning and Review," September 30, 1993), which highlights that "the private sector and private markets are the best engine for economic growth."

Results

In the first eight months of the Administration, agencies have far exceeded the 10 for 1 requirement:

Regulations eliminated in 2025 will save about $211.8 billion in present and future regulatory costs across the government.
129 to 1: Agencies issued 646 deregulatory actions and 5 significant regulatory actions. This included changes to rules, guidance, policies, and other regulatory "dark matter" that impose requirements on the American people.
- 43 to 1: Within these results, Agencies issued 218 deregulatory actions that delete, modify, or otherwise refine the Code of Federal Regulations.
For a full statement of these results see Regulatory Reform under Executive Order 14192: Final Accounting for Fiscal Year 2025.

Projected Cost Savings for Fiscal Year 2026

As part of the effort to continue reducing unnecessary and ineffective regulatory burdens, agencies are working with OIRA to identify a regulatory cost allowance or budget for fiscal year 2026. These cost allowances will be released in the future and will be informed by each agency's submissions for the Fall 2025 Regulatory Plan and Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions and incorporate regulatory actions required by law.

Methodology

In order to calculate regulatory costs and cost savings for purposes of EO 14192, OIRA and the agencies have established consistent accounting standards, explained in further detail in Accounting Methods under Executive Order 14192.