One Onerous New Regulation Down, Zillions More to Go

A while back I wrote about the Obama Administration's near exponential expansion of EEO reporting



Fortunately, the Trump Administration has at least temporarily suspended this requirement:

On Tuesday, the White House suspended a burdensome reporting requirement for employers that would have cost them $400 million while yielding information of questionable value. It did so in rejecting changes to the EEO-1 form made at the end of the Obama administration.

The White House Office of Management and Budget stated that the pay collection and reporting requirements “lack practical utility, are unnecessarily burdensome, and do not adequately address privacy and confidentiality issues.” It explained its reasoning in a letter to the Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Victoria Lipnic.



  1. SamWah:

    I take it you give Trump a point for this. Hillary wouldna ha' done it.

  2. jimc5499:

    I'll bet that information would be useful to someone, but, not the people it was supposedly intended for.

  3. CapitalistRoader:

    Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1840)

  4. Matthew Teague:

    If all we get out of a Trump presidency is Gorsuch, Another similar judge should another justice retire, decent judges for the circuit court vacancies, and regulations rolled back en masse... that's a net positive, right?

  5. Thane_Eichenauer:

    "RESISTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: Senate Democrats have decided to obstruct President Donald J. Trump’s Administration, and the American people, by refusing to confirm qualified nominations."