Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order all executive departments

and agencies to take the following steps. Do not propose or issue any rule in any manner,

including by sending a rule to the Office of the Federal Register, the OFR, until the department

or agency had appointed or designated by the president afternoon on January

2020-25 reviews and approves the rule. Basically, they cannot do anything until Trump appoints someone

else. It says that the department or agency head may delegate this power of review and approval

to any other person.

So appointed or designated by the president consistent with applicable law, the director or acting

director of the office of management and budget, the OMB director, may exempt any rule that he

deems necessary to address emergency situations or other urgent circumstances,

including rules subject to statutory or judicial deadlines that require prompt action.

And this is also important because Trump also enacted several emergencies.

And if you understand that basically the road is clear to do whatever is needed for emergencies,

Trump declared an emergency on the border.

Trump also declared an emergency on energy production, meaning he can basically do anything.

We'll get into that in a minute.

Now Trump then goes on to detail the restrictions on federal agencies.

And he clarifies the ban on them creating any kind of new rules.

This extends to any kind of regulatory action, any kind of guiding document, and any other name that they tend to use to create new rules.

This is effectively the momentary end of the administrative state.

Now look, it's not clear how long Trump plans to keep that order in effect. He does suggest that,

you know, until he appoints whoever's going to lead these agencies, they kind of are frozen in terms of doing new things.

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