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25 Obama Regulations Cost Taxpayers $348.7 Billion
by Elizabeth Harrington
September 22, 2016
Regulations issued under the Obama administration could cost taxpayers roughly $350 billion, according to a new report released by Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.)…“Over the last eight years under the Obama administration, and especially since the president’s 2014 State of the Union address when he committed to using his ‘pen and phone’ to circumvent Congress, the American people have been hit with a barrage of federal regulations that are saddling Arizona’s economy, hurting small businesses, strangling middle class families, and robbing taxpayers—to the tune of $348.7 billion,” McCain said. READ MORE