Bottom Line: Through the weekend we had a total of 17 executive orders from President Trump. Monday brought about more activity on the executive order front with number 18.
Regulation reform: The newest executive order mandates that federal agencies must cut two regulations for every one that's introduced and it also provides a cap on the annual cost of compliance with regulations for businesses at zero. Meaning that the net effect of any new regulation can't increase the net cost of doing business for the companies/industries impacted by regulatory changes.
Tuesday is expected to be a significant day as aside from any executive action that may be taken, the President is expected to announce his nomination for the US Supreme Court. It's worth noting that delay tactics being used by Senate Democrats to deny votes to President Trump's cabinet nominees is likely to continue as minority leader Chuck Schumer said that he'd seek to continue to delay Secretary of State designate Rex Tillerson and issued the following statements regarding all of the remaining cabinet officials that have been denied votes so far (except Elaine Chao - Transportation Secretary nominee): "repeatedly shown they will not put the American people or the laws of our nation first." So who are those people? Rep. Mick Mulvaney, for Office of Management and Budget director, Rep. Tom Price, for Health and Human Services, Steve Mnuchin for Treasury, Scott Pruitt for the EPA and Andy Puzder for Labor Secretary. So if there were validly to Schumer's incredibly irresponsible statement would they have been prosecuted for violating laws? Once again crickets from the media on slanderous, unfounded material from Chuck Schumer.
Schumer has already said he would oppose Betsy DeVos as Education secretary, Rex Tillerson as secretary of State and Sen. Jeff Sessions, as attorney general.