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The House Just Set the Stage for the Biggest Regulatory Heist in History
One of the main goals of Project 2025 was to pass the Midnight Rules Relief Act. They are dangerously close to succeeding.
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Trump and his DOGE cowboys are at it again. Every time they pull some dirtbag move, I wait for silent screams. Of course, Trump's posse never robs the bank outright. No, not enough pathos. Instead, they prefer a good diversion — like a puff of gunpowder and a showboating duel — so the real heist goes unnoticed.
This week, Twitter's town square was ablaze with indignation over the Cartographer-in-Chief redrawing maps. Curiously, Trump renaming the Gulf of Mexico and Greenland sparked more outrage than removing the "T" and "Q" from LGBTQ. People are funny like that.
But while everyone on social media groused and griped over Trump's plan to pave over Jackie Kennedy's rose gardens, Trump's merry band of minions sneaked through The Midnight Rules Relief Act (H.R. 77) with a 212–208 vote.
At first blush, the bill sounds downright heroic. With a name like that, you'd think John Wayne himself penned it to rescue America from the throes of last-hour tyranny. But don't be fooled. This thing practically twirls its mustache while tying Democracy to the railroad tracks.
Here's the long and short of it: this Act allows Congress to lasso and hogtie hundreds of Biden-era federal regulations in one mass repeal. Worker protections, environmental safeguards, product safety rules, and banking regulations — blown up like a stick of dynamite.
The Midnight Rules Relief Act Explained
The Congressional Review Act (CRA) of 1996 already allows Congress to undo the prior President's regulations, but only one at a time. Under the CRA, Congress can disapprove a regulation within 60 legislative days of its finalization through a joint resolution, which the President must then sign.
But this bill? It bundles them all together into a single, glorious kill switch. No need for careful…
