White House orders 'immediate regulatory freeze'

President Donald Trump took his first steps Friday night toward what he has promised will be a wide-ranging assault on Barack Obama’s regulatory agenda, a crusade eventually aimed at erasing Obamacare and landmark climate change regulations.

Trump’s initial action — ordering a freeze on all pending regulations until his administration can review them — would have a more modest impact: It could throttle almost-completed rules aimed at expanding overtime pay, tightening pipeline safety, protecting imperiled bumblebees and imposing stricter safeguards on rail shipments of flammable crude oil, among other topics.

Symbolically, the move marks the start of a dramatic shift in regulatory policy under Trump — even if Obama's agencies made certain to push their most ambitious regulations to completion long before his term ended. Trump would need Congress’ help to unwind Obama’s most sweeping and contentious rules, such as those on climate change, but Republican lawmakers are already eagerly pushing in that direction.

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