The 30th Anniversary Edition of Ten Thousand Commandments
Wayne Crews
Competitive Enterprise Institute
April 14, 2026
Record federal spending and record-setting regulatory burdens often march in lockstep. New spending is straightforward to track, but regulations obliging the private sector to shoulder compliance costs are a different story. These off-budget mandates expand despite Congress’s occasional attempts to check them. And the Biden-era hunger for top-down control on energy, climate, family leave, and child care has not disappeared with the return of Donald J. Trump, but shifted.
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