connected with Americans and been effective so far is beyond me. This is from today:
We directed the elimination of regulations that undermine manufacturing, and called for expedited approval of the permits needed for America and American infrastructure — and that means plants, equipment, roads, bridges, factories. People take 10, 15, 20 years to get disapproved for a factory. They go in for a permit; it’s many, many years. And then, at the end of the process, they spend tens of millions of dollars on nonsense.
And at the end of the process, they get rejected. Now, they may be rejected with me, but it’s gonna be a quick rejection. It is not gonna take years. But mostly it’s gonna be an acceptance. We want plants built and we want factories built and we want the jobs. We don’t want the jobs going to other countries. We’ve imposed a hiring freeze on nonessential federal workers. We’ve imposed a temporary moratorium on new federal regulations. We’ve issued a game-changing new rule that says, “For each one new regulation, two old regulations must be eliminated.” Makes sense. Nobody’s ever seen regulations like we have.
You go to other countries and you look at industries they have and you say, “Let me see your regulations,” and they’re a fraction, just a tiny fraction of what we have. And I want regulations because I want safety; I want environmental — all environmental situations to be taken proper care of. It’s very important to me. But you don’t need four or five or six regulations to take care of the same thing.