“In my second term, we will eliminate a minimum of 10 old regulations for every one new regulation.”
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Adversarial re-check: all three cited sources are real, live, and quoted accurately. I independently confirmed the executive order from the official Federal Register PDF on govinfo.gov (Executive Order 14192 of January 31, 2025, 'Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation,' 90 FR 9065), whose Sec. 3(a) states verbatim that whenever an agency proposes or promulgates a new regulation 'it shall identify at least 10 existing regulations to be repealed' -- the promise codified almost word-for-word eleven days into the term, signed personally by Trump. That is leadership and enactment, not mere support, so ATTEMPTED and PARTIAL both understate it. But FULL is not supportable. The 129-to-1 figure (646 deregulatory vs. 5 significant regulatory actions, $211.8B claimed savings) is the administration's OWN accounting on reginfo.gov and rests on a narrow definitional count of just 5 'new regulations' in a year, with entire categories (national security, immigration, agency management, statutorily required rules) excluded from the tally by the EO's own terms. Using the SAME EO 14192 designation categories, the nonpartisan GW Regulatory Studies Center's July 7, 2026 analysis of the 2026 Unified Agenda (verified by extracting the PDF text; the publication is also listed on the Center's own publications index) finds completed major rules at 20 deregulatory to 11 regulatory (~1.8-to-1) and active major rules at 74 to 45 (~1.6-to-1) -- an order of magnitude below the promised 10-to-1 -- and reports the overall agenda at 3,954 actions, comparable in size to recent Unified Agendas rather than a shrinking regulatory state. Note also that the EO's binding text requires agencies to IDENTIFY 10 regulations for repeal at the proposal stage, which is not the same as verified elimination. Party-symmetry test applied: a Democratic president who signed an EO codifying a numeric promise verbatim within two weeks, whose OMB then claimed the target was exceeded 13-fold while an independent academic center measuring the same designations found roughly 2-to-1, would likewise earn CHAMPIONED -- credit for genuinely leading and enacting the policy, withheld credit for a self-reported target no independent source substantiates. I dropped one claim from the prior rationale (that the Federal Register published over 3,600 final rules in the period) because I could not independently verify it this session; the conclusion does not depend on it. Outcome and reasoning otherwise stand; confidence nudged from 0.78 to 0.80 after verifying every source firsthand.
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