This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Sunday, December 18th, 2016.

I'm Caleb Brown.

You can't just undo regulations with the stroke of a pen

despite what President-elect Donald Trump argues. So what can he do following the midnight regulating period

we are now in.

Susan Dudley directs the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center

and is a former head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

We spoke earlier this month.

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump talked a lot about specific regulations, or I should say laws that enable

a whole host of regulations, Obamacare, Dodd Frank, among others. But what has he said about regulatory policy that you

found compelling.

did.

He talked about specific regulations that the ones you mentioned, but also energy and environmental

regulations.

And he promised to make very big cuts in regulation.

I think a quote is very, very big cuts in regulations.

And sometimes he used a, he'd give a number like 80%

or 90% of regulations he would do away with if elected.

There is sort of a natural time limit, it seems, on undoing actions of a previous president,

especially when they come in the form of regulatory policy rules that are issued by executive

agencies. So is that a likely scenario?

This 80% 90% because of course the Federal Register expands by thousands of

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