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President Trump is Providing Regulatory Relief to Jumpstart the Economy and Get Americans Back to Work
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Today, President Trump signed an executive order that will help slash red tape in order to revitalize the economy and get Americans back to work.
· The President is directing agencies to use all emergency authorities to swiftly identify regulations that can be rescinded or temporarily waived to promote job creation and economic growth.
o Agencies have used these emergency authorities to fight coronavirus, and now we will use them to revitalize our economy and lift up our country again.
o The Trump Administration will utilize the same determination to jumpstart the economy that it has used to combat the coronavirus.
· The President’s order asks agencies to speed up the rulemaking process by moving proposed rulemakings to interim final rules with immediate effect – saving years in some cases.
· President Trump has long made deregulation a major pillar of his pro-growth policies, freeing up small businesses and entrepreneurs to create jobs and drive economic growth.
The President is providing regulatory relief for American businesses as they work to recover from the impact of the coronavirus.
· The President is directing agencies not to over-enforce when a business is working in good faith to follow the law.
o This discretion will especially benefit small businesses, who are fighting to recover from the impact of this pandemic.
· The President’s order establishes a “Regulatory Bill of Rights,” a set of 10 basic principles of fairness to govern the administrative enforcement and adjudication process.
o These principles will help give businesses the confidence they need to invest and grow as we recover as a nation.
Deregulation has played a key role in the Administration’s coronavirus response, and we will look through the hundreds of actions taken already to see which ones can be made permanent.
· President Trump and his Administration have taken over 600 regulatory actions to combat the coronavirus, including many suspensions, waivers, enforcement discretion, and more.
· The Administration will look at ways to make many of these actions permanent.
President Trump is Demanding Accountability and Reform at the WHO
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The President has released a letter to the WHO laying out the findings of the investigation into the organization’s failures in responding to the coronavirus.
Throughout the course of the investigation, the Trump Administration found repeated missteps by the WHO in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
- As a result of the investigation, President Trump will permanently cease all U.S. funding to the WHO and reconsider our membership in the organization if it does not commit to major substantive reforms within the next 30 days.
- President Trump will not allow American taxpayer dollars to finance an organization that is clearly not serving America’s interests in its present state.
The WHO jeopardized the lives of millions around the world during by spreading bad information.
- The WHO ignored credible reporting about the virus spreading in Wuhan, including evidence that indicated human-to-human transmission.
- The WHO has repeatedly made grossly inaccurate or misleading claims about coronavirus, including spreading Chinese disinformation.
- This includes spreading Chinese disinformation denying human-to-human transmission and downplaying asymptomatic spread.
- Even after the outbreak became too large to ignore, the WHO failed to press China to quickly admit medical experts to begin studying the origins of the virus, resulting in weeks of delays.
- By the time the WHO acknowledged this was a pandemic, the virus had already killed more than 4,000 people and infected more than 100,000 people in at least 114 countries.
The WHO has extensively praised China, while inexplicably criticizing the actions of other countries appropriately trying to respond to the virus and save lives.
- The WHO’s alarming bias toward China has become even more abundantly clear over these past months.
- The WHO offered praise for China’s strict domestic travel restrictions, but inexplicably argued against President Trump’s travel restrictions on China – an action that saved countless lives.
- Throughout this crisis, the WHO has continuously praised China for its alleged “transparency,” despite abundant evidence suggesting they were misleading the world.
- The WHO was aware of Chinese authorities carrying out a campaign of forced quarantines, evictions, and mistreatment of Africans in China but said nothing.
- To this day, the WHO has not publicly called on China to allow for an independent investigation into the origins of the virus, despite an endorsement of such an investigation from its own Emergency Committee.
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