On the eve of President Donald Trump’s visit, California’s Democratic Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the state has unleashed its 49th lawsuit against the Trump administration, this time challenging a presidential executive order signed in 2017 that “arbitrarily” slashes regulations.
California was joined in the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia by the attorneys general of Minnesota and Oregon.
In a statement Thursday night, Becerra said Trump’s “2-for-1” executive order, issued on Jan. 30, 2017, requires that U.S. agencies to repeal at least two existing government regulations for every new one an agency issues, with the goal to offset costs.
