Reducing the Federal Regulatory State
10 February 2023
Wayne Crews, Fred L. Smith Fellow in Regulatory Studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, discusses President Biden's push for more federal spending, regulation, and dependency, and the need to reduce the federal regulatory state.
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