As was predicted and outlined in MHARR’s November 9, 2016 Washington Update, President-Elect Trump’s promise to “impose a … moratorium order on new agency regulations,” pending the review and elimination of regulations that “kill jobs” and “do not improve public safety,” has taken an important first step forward with a November 15, 2016 congressional communication – signed by the House majority leader and the Chairmen of all standing House Committees — to the Secretaries, Directors and Administrators of all federal agencies (see, copy attached) cautioning them against “finalizing pending rules or regulations in the [Obama] Administration’s last days.”

This action by Congress sends a proverbial “shot across the bow” of each federal agency in the waning days of the Obama Administration, against seeking to force “midnight regulations” through the administrative process in an attempt to tie the hands of the incoming Trump Administration.

Congress’ call for a regulatory moratorium is potentially applicable to any number of pending regulatory dictates that have plagued both the manufactured housing industry and American consumers of affordable housing, and could well be the – as stated by MHARR in its November 9, 2016 Washington Update — the opening salvo in a political realignment that could change the fundamental dynamics of the regulatory system in Washington, D.C. and the heavy-handed modus operandi of federal career regulators (and contractors) that has only intensified over the past eight years.

This matter will be addressed in greater detail at MHARR’s upcoming Fall 2016 Board of Directors meeting.