Every rule Washington writes carries a price tag, and for years that price kept climbing. By the end of the last administration, new federal rules had added roughly $1.8 trillion in costs — about $10,000 per household, with EPA rules alone accounting for more than $1.3 trillion. For a small business, compliance is not an abstraction: the owner spends weeks a year on paperwork, permits and reporting instead of serving customers. Deregulation is the effort to give that money and time back. The Ten-for-One RuleThe centerpiece is Executive Order 14192, signed in January 2025, which requires agencies to eliminate ten … Continued
