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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Increases Efficiency at the Federal Register

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ACCELERATING DEREGULATION: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order directing a little-known but critically important federal entity, the Office of the Federal Register, to speed up publishing time and decrease costs. These changes will enable agencies to more quickly and effectively restore freedom through President Trump’s deregulatory agenda.

  • The order directs that the Archivist of the United States and Office of the Federal Register review current practices, modernize and streamline processes to reduce delays, and ensure that costs at the Federal Register are limited to actual costs.

21st CENTURY PUBLISHING: The Federal Register must modernize its operations, including its technology, and streamline its operations.

  • The Federal Register has a crucial role in the regulatory process: it publishes proposed and final agency actions, including deregulatory actions that eliminate regulations.
  • Importantly, every notice that the Federal Register receives has already been approved by the originating agency.
    • There is no reason it should take days, or even weeks, to simply publish these notices.
    • On top of these delays, the Government Publishing Office charges agencies $151+ per column of text to publish documents in the Federal Register.
  • By eliminating bureaucratic red tape and increasing efficiency, the Office of the Federal Register will catch up to the rest of the Administration and facilitate, rather than slow, the President’s deregulatory agenda.

MODERNIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT:  This EO is part of several initiatives this administration has taken to improve how the Federal Government functions. President Trump understands that to shrink bureaucracy and increase efficiency, the Federal Government needs to modernize.

  • President Trump signed an Executive Order to modernize how the government handles money, switching from old-fashioned paper-based payments to fast, secure electronic payments.
  • The Trump Administration is working to digitize federal retirement paperwork rather than continue to process it manually in a Pennsylvania limestone mine.