The Department of Government Effectiveness is going to be busy.

A new report from the American Action Forum showed that the cost of President Joe Biden’s regulations totals $1.8 trillion, which is even more shocking when juxtaposed with the $1.2 billion spent on President-elect Donald Trump’s regulations during his first term, The Washington Examiner. reported.

“It’s a huge number,” Dan Goldbeck, director of regulatory policy at the American Action Forum, said of the Biden-Harris figure.

“In addition to reducing the financial burden on America with his regulations, Biden is on track to break the record for issuing these rules in the United States. Federal Register, The American Bureaucracy Handbook. According to Clyde Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, this year’s total already ranks second at 89,476 pages,” The Examiner reported.

Besides businesses, the cost burden has been shared by all Americans in the form of crushing and enduring inflation, which Trump campaigned against.

Former President Obama holds the current record of 95,894 pages, but President Biden is expected to break that record in the final two months of his administration.

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And some people are calling for Congress to use the Congressional Review Act to eliminate regulations that, if implemented using that law, would prevent the same rules from being proposed again.

“Every agency head appointed by Biden should also be notified. Any final rule hastily adopted in a lame duck period may be disapproved under the Congressional Review Act. This is not just a repeal. It prohibits the agency from again issuing a substantially similar rule,” said Federal Election Commission Chairman Sean Cooksey. said on X, formerly Twitter.

“Next year, one of President Trump’s biggest opportunities will be to cut through the Biden administration’s red tape and free American citizens and businesses from bureaucracy. I hope that President Trump and the Republican Congress will use every tool at their disposal, including the powerful Congressional Review Act,” he said.

Pro-Trump businessmen Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have officially joined Donald Trump’s administration, according to a statement from the president-elect.

Trump announced in a statement Tuesday that the two would jointly lead the new Department of Government Effectiveness. Both Ramaswamy and Musk stressed throughout Trump’s campaign the need to reduce the size and power of the federal government.

“I am pleased to announce that the great Elon Musk, together with American Patriot Vivek Ramaswamy, will lead the Department of Government Effectiveness (DOGE),” Trump said. wrote on its Truth Social platform.

“DOGE” is also a cryptocurrency that Musk has often promoted.

“Together, these two wonderful Americans will lead the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, cut excessive regulations, cut wasteful spending, and restructure federal agencies,” Trump said in a statement.

The Department of Government Effectiveness is not a new government agency. Trump said he would “provide advice and guidance from outside of government” and “partner” with the White House and the Office of Management and Budget to drive structural reform of government, ABC News reported.

“This will send shockwaves through the system and everyone involved in government waste, which is a lot of people!” “said Mr. Musk,” the statement continued.

Trump has speculated that this effort could become a modern version of the “Manhattan Project” in terms of scope, influence and legacy.

“Republican politicians have been dreaming of the goals of ‘DOGE’ for a very long time. To drive this type of radical change, the Department of Government Effectiveness will provide advice and guidance outside of government, and partner with the White House and the Office of Management and Budget to drive structural reform to scale and create an entrepreneurial approach to government. never seen before,” Trump wrote.

“I look forward to Elon and Vivek making changes to the federal bureaucracy for the sake of efficiency and, at the same time, improving the lives of all Americans. Most importantly, we will eliminate the massive waste and fraud that exists throughout our $6.5 trillion in annual government spending,” he added.

“They will work together to liberate our economy and hold the U.S. government accountable to “WE, THE PEOPLE.” Their work will be completed no later than July 4, 2026. A smaller government, with more efficiency and less bureaucracy, will be the perfect gift to America on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. I am convinced that they will succeed! he said.