Counting The Cost Of The Regulatory State

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🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Clyde Wayne Crews, the Fred L. Smith fellow in regulatory studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to discuss the expansion of executive action and break down how the resulting overregulation is costing Americans thousands of dollars every year.

Read Crews' “Ten Thousand Commandments" report here.

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0:00.0	And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:21.9	I'm Matt Kittle, senior elections correspondent at The Federalist, and your experience
0:26.7	Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge.
0:29.7	As always, you can email the show at Radio at the Federalist.com.
0:34.3	Follow us on X at FDRLST.
0:37.3	Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast
0:39.8	and, of course, to the premium version of our website as well. Our guest today is Clyde
0:45.2	Wayne Cruz of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He joins us to talk about the latest
0:50.4	10,000 commandments, the cost burden of the massive mountains of federal regulations that
0:58.4	each American and American businesses are facing. Clyde, thank you so much for joining us on
1:03.4	this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. You bet. I appreciate you having me. Thanks for
1:07.4	thinking of us and taking all this interest in the regulatory state.
1:11.5	Oh, we're being buried by it every day. I don't think, I don't think the average American knows just
1:16.0	how much that's what the focus of this podcast today is really all about. You write that Washington
1:22.0	regulations got worse under President Joe Biden. And I think we can understand that, having lived through it.
1:30.3	Yes. Because his administration sought to impose progressive rules against energy, consumer
1:36.4	appliances, labor, banking, online speech, and other sectors of the economy.
1:43.7	There's, looking over the previous four years, it would seem if it was moving, as former
1:52.7	President Ronald Reagan said, this administration was going to try to tax it or regulate it.
1:57.9	Is that an overstatement of the problem? No, you got it exactly right.
2:03.5	I was, you know, I was noticing the other day, this is now 32 years that I've been putting this
2:08.3	report together. And let me just say, wow, you've done this a while, yes.
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