Biden costs Americans an additional $25,000, prompting calls for ‘Office Of No’

Since President Joe Biden took office, people are facing an annual inflation tab at over $11,000 a year just for the basics.

But that’s not all. Because of regulations pouring out of the White House and Washington, they are facing another $14,514 in hidden annual costs.

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So it makes sense that the think tank that shines a bright light on the swamp’s antics is now calling for an “Office of No” to stop the liberal regulatory wave.

“Some mechanism for government downsizing needs to be automatized,” said Wayne Crews, the regulation czar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He put the annual national price of Washington red tape at $1.939 trillion in his just-released report, “Ten Thousand Commandments: A Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State.”

That would be the “Office of No,” he said.

“One solution is an Office of No that would replace or supplement the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Its sole tasks would be to make the case against new and existing regulations and to facilitate ongoing sunsetting and streamlining,” Crews said.

It’s not a far-fetched idea. Both former President Donald Trump and challenger Vivek Ramaswamy have pledged to slash regulations if elected, and Trump as president at one point was eliminating 22 Obama-Biden era regulations for every new one his team pushed through.

But, said Crews, without leadership in the Oval Office, changes and hidden red tape taxes on the public will not end.

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“When the U.S. federal administrative state began its march over a century ago, few imagined the tangle of hundreds of thousands of rules and guidance documents it would produce, and the way those would envelop society. Donald Trump’s four years brought unique reversals, such as a reduced flow of new rules and some rollbacks of existing ones. Attempts were made to streamline internal departmental and agency processes and speed regulatory approvals for private activities,” he wrote in the 142-page report.

“Unfortunately, as detailed extensively in the 2021 edition of Ten Thousand Commandments, the liberalizations ended with the inauguration of President Joe Biden. He declared the Trump agenda consisted of ‘harmful policies and directives that threaten to frustrate the federal government’s ability to confront … problems.’ Biden initiated a progressive ‘modernization’ of the regulatory review process. He even reoriented the Office of Management and Budget away from regulatory supervision and restraint and toward the promotion of regulatory initiatives,” Crews added.