Thread by @BasedMikeLee

1/ The REINS Act is a potential game-changer for restoring constitutional balance

It would prevent major regulations (those imposing compliance costs of at least $100M) from taking effect without being passed by Congress—not just rubber stamped by unelected bureaucrats!

2/ Under the Constitution, only the people’s elected lawmakers are authorized to make federal law

Congress & the Supreme Court have neglected that requirement for decades

The REINS Act would fix this problem, which costs Americans trillions of dollars a year

3/ Essentially everything you buy becomes more expensive as businesses struggle to comply with the tens of thousands of pages of new federal regulations issued annually

4/ The Federal Register from last year alone contains about 100,000 pages and imposes an estimated $1.5 trillion in *new* regulatory compliance costs—on top of the trillions of dollars in compliance costs already imposed by regulations issued prior to 2024!

5/ For too long, federal agencies have churned out “rules” (laws by another name, but written by bureaucrats instead of elected lawmakers)

According to one source, the federal rules now in effect contain 98.68 million words of red tape—crushing small businesses, stifling innovation, and harming consumers in countless ways

The REINS Act would restrain runaway bureaucracy, making agencies answer to Congress and (more importantly) the American people

6/ The 2025 budget reconciliation package may be our best shot to pass the REINS Act

Reconciliation bypasses the 60-vote “cloture” requirement in the Senate

If we can make REINS work through reconciliation, we could finally pass this bill, which the House has passed four times

7/ Critics say REINS is “radical”

I say, thank heaven for that!

It’s radical to let unelected officials write laws with zero accountability

It’s common sense to require Congress to pass major rules

Let’s flip the script on Washington’s power grab

8/ The REINS Act isn’t just about cutting red tape—it’s about speeding up progress

Unchecked regulations delay critical projects, from infrastructure to energy

By putting Congress in charge, we can move faster and smarter—without needless delays imposed by unelected bureaucrats

9/ We’ve spent *months* strategizing on how to fit REINS into reconciliation’s budget rules

It’s tailored to focus on rules that it impacts mandatory outlays or revenues—ensuring it passes muster with the Senate parliamentarian

This is strategic, deliberate, and ready to go

10/ Some in Congress might hesitate, but they shouldn’t

The REINS Act isn’t partisan—it’s pro-accountability

It ensures *every* major regulation, no matter the administration, faces scrutiny

This would protect Americans from overreach—during this admin and in the future!

11/ The stakes are high: without REINS, agencies will keep imposing “invisible taxes” through regulations—with costs hitting families & businesses hard

With REINS, those regs would face a vote

And then lawmakers would be required to face voters, as the Constitution requires

12/ The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee has criticized it, insisting that the REINS Act “would be a war on regulations,” and that “[t]o take that authority away from the executive branch would be a serious mistake”

His first argument—that REINS amounts to a “war on regulations” made by bureaucrats who can’t be fired by the American people through elections—is quite an endorsement!

As to his second point, the “serious mistake” was made decades ago when Congress began authorizing unelected bureaucrats to make federal law, contrary to the command of the Constitution

That mistake continues to this day and has harmed the American people in ways most of us can’t even imagine

The good news is that we can turn this mess around with the REINS Act

13/ The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee also criticized it, arguing that REINS would help Congress “hide the most destructive deregulatory votes among dozens of others, completely burying it in darkness”

What?

He’s got it exactly backwards

Nothing says “we’re burying it in darkness” quite like letting unelected bureaucrats subject Americans to tens of thousands of pages of new federal law every year *without* requiring a vote in Congress!

14/ We’re not just talking here—we’re building a broad coalition to make REINS law, as Representative @Kat_Cammack can attest

That’s where you come in

To make this happen, we need YOU to tell your senators: support REINS in reconciliation!

15/ The REINS Act is about one thing: giving power back to the people

Pass it in 2025, and we’ll restore the Constitution’s promise—with federal laws being made by those you elect, not by bureaucrats you’ll never meet

Call your senator today you want the REINS Act in the reconciliation package

Let’s do this! 🇺🇸

@Kat_Cammack 16/ Here’s the link to the article:


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