In the final days before President Obama leaves office, administration officials are rushing to complete dozens of tasks, with little assurance that any of them will be retained in the Trump administration. In the final days before President Obama leaves office, administration officials are rushing to complete dozens of tasks that will affect millions of lives and solidify the president’s imprint on history. Last-minute regulatory actions also spiked in 2008 and in 2000, said Sam Batkins, director of regulatory policy at the conservative American Action Forum, which has long been tracking White House regulations. That October, by Batkins’s count, just four rules came out of the White House. And Obama took much the same approach after assuming office in 2009, essentially halting former president George W. Bush’s pending regulations.

Source: Washington Post January 14, 2017 23:57 UTC