At the risk of mentioning Trump, I thought this was what executive order 13771 was supposed to alleviate: make the regulatory state self-pruning by forcing it t

At the risk of mentioning Trump, I thought this was what executive order 13771 was supposed to alleviate: make the regulatory state self-pruning by forcing it to repeal two regulations for every one that was passed. It was environmentally controversial, certainly. I don't see how the government will ever reduce its complexity unless it has a similar mechanism in place to force existing regulations to be removed to make room for new ones.