Trump: ‘The Regulatory Process in This Country Has Become a Tangled up Mess’

‘The process was so long and cumbersome that they give up before the end’

TRUMP: "This is about streamlining the incredibly cumbersome, long, horrible permitting process and reducing regulatory burdens for domestic manufacturing. Many of the people that we’ve been meeting with over the last long period of time, but yesterday and others, the process was so long and cumbersome that they give up before the end. Sometimes it takes many, many years, and we don’t want that to happen. And if it’s a 'No,' we will give them a quick no. And if it’s a 'Yes,' then let’s start building. The regulatory process in this country has become a tangled up mess and very unfair to people. That’s a big one. This is the expediting of environmental reviews and approvals for high priority infrastructure projects. We intend to fix our country, our bridges, our roadways. We can’t be in an environmental process for 15 years if a bridge is going to be falling down or if a highway is crumbling. So we are expediting environmental reviews and approvals. Okay."

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