Dismantling Rules Across Government: The Trump Administration’s Deregulation Blitz
Welcome to the year 2025, where the only thing disappearing faster than workers’ rights is the ozone layer. The second coming of Trump has delivered on its promise: an all-out war on regulations, a bonfire of the rulebooks, a full-speed sprint toward corporate free-for-all. This isn’t just a policy shift—it’s an ideological crusade, a blood sacrifice to the gods of unchecked capitalism. And unless you own a multinational conglomerate, you’re the offering on the altar.
Day One: The Regulatory Massacre Begins
January 20, 2025: Trump’s first act upon re-entering the Oval Office wasn’t to unite a fractured nation or address the struggles of working Americans. No, he grabbed his executive order pen and swung it like a scythe, freezing every Biden-era regulation still in the pipeline. Pending safety protections? Halted. Environmental standards? Tossed in the shredder. Consumer protections? Left for dead.
Shortly after, he took a page from his 2017 playbook and doubled down—literally. Instead of cutting two regulations for every new one, he demanded agencies obliterate ten. That’s right: for every new rule meant to keep corporations in check, ten existing protections get wiped from existence.
The marching orders were clear: if it inconveniences business, kill it. If it slows down profit, gut it. If it stops the reckless pursuit of prosperity at any cost, burn it to the ground.
The ‘Department of Government Efficiency’: A Corporate Wish List Come True
Under the guise of “efficiency,” Trump and his Republican allies handed billionaires and corporate executives a golden ticket to deregulation. The so-called Department of Government Efficiency—a glorified guillotine for worker and consumer protections—now has free rein to dismantle regulations at will.
Industries that spent the past few years whining about “burdensome rules” are now popping champagne, watching as the very standards meant to keep them in check vanish overnight:
- Workplace safety measures? OSHA has been stripped of enforcement power. Companies can now “self-regulate”—a phrase that should terrify anyone who’s ever held a job.
- Environmental protections? The EPA is little more than a shell, muzzled from enforcing emissions limits or cracking down on corporate polluters.
- Consumer finance protections? The CFPB, already battered from Trump’s first term, is now in a full-blown coma. Payday lenders and predatory banks are free to feast.
- Food and drug safety? Loosened inspections, fewer penalties for violations, and a Wild West mentality in industries that, you know, keep people alive.
‘Unleashing Prosperity’—But for Whom?
Trump sells this as an economic victory: cutting red tape, supercharging business, letting capitalism “thrive.” But let’s be clear: the prosperity being unleashed is not for you.
The average worker isn’t seeing their wages skyrocket or their bills shrink. You’re not suddenly swimming in affordable housing or watching healthcare costs plummet. Instead, we’re seeing the kind of ‘prosperity’ that makes CEOs grin while regular people cough up dust.
- Wages remain stagnant as companies seize the opportunity to cut costs by skirting labor laws.
- Job protections erode, giving employers unchecked power to fire, exploit, and abuse workers with no fear of consequences.
- Healthcare costs rise, as insurance giants lobby for the removal of consumer safeguards.
- The rich get richer—because, of course, they do.
Meanwhile, ordinary Americans are left wondering: Where’s this so-called prosperity? Because unless you’re flying private and writing off your third vacation home, the only thing trickling down is deregulated corporate greed.
The Road Ahead: More Chaos, More Deregulation, More Suffering
This is only the beginning. The gutting of regulations is set to accelerate, with the White House already plotting deeper cuts across healthcare, transportation, and financial oversight. The ghosts of the 2008 financial crisis are rattling their chains, whispering, We’ve seen this horror movie before.
But here we are, living the sequel.
For those of us not invited to the billionaire victory lap, the message is clear: if you thought the first Trump administration was a wild ride, buckle up. This one’s aiming for the crash.
