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Trump cuts business free

By James Langford
Published February 6, 2018 5:01am ET
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Trump cuts business free
The administration has canceled or delayed more than 1,500 regulatory actions planned under former President Barack Obama. About $570 million a year in costs, which comes out to $8.1 billion over a lifetime, has been eliminated as a result, the White House says. (Illustration by Bill Lesniewski)

President Trump views regulatory red tape wrapped around corporate America much as landowners in the southern U.S. view kudzu — as a creeping menace with an outlandish growth rate and a tendency to suffocate what it covers.

The remedies are also similar: Cut them away faster than they can grow back.

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