In his administration’s final slap at President Donald Trump, Biden unleashed a flood of 263 new rules and regulations this month that filled nearly 8,000 pages of the daily Federal Register. And that was over just 12 workdays in January.

Clyde Wayne Crews, the regulations watchdog for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, declared it a Biden “big bang” clearly meant to force the ex-president’s agenda on Trump.

“Biden’s final publication showcased 243 new rules across 7,641 pages for only the first three weeks of 2025, cementing Biden’s legacy as a prolific regulator,” Crews said. He said that Biden’s team coughed up more regulations than any president ever.

Tuesday alone saw Biden’s final chapter of regulations in the Federal Register reach nearly 900 pages, “marking the apex of his aggressive midnight-rule push,” Crews added in his final report on Biden regulations.

At 872 pages, Biden’s January 21 Federal Register tied a final big bow on an aggressive midnight-rule push.https://t.co/vQJrSGgkmV

— Clyde Wayne Crews Jr (@wayne_crews) January 20, 2025

Trump’s team has seen this type of agenda-stuffing before, such as when it arrived after eight years of the Obama-Biden administration in 2017. At that time, Trump had a plan to kill two of former President Barack Obama’s regulations for each one he proposed, but his team wasn’t as experienced at stopping new rules before they kicked in as it is today.

Trump now hopes to kill 10 Biden regulations for each one he proposes, and he has already moved to freeze some of Biden’s actions and is eager to work with Congress to stop others that have been in the works over the past several months.

On Monday, he revoked 67 Biden executive orders and 10 Biden presidential memoranda on topics ranging from diversity, equity, and inclusion plans to energy policy and immigration.

Trump is also establishing a Department of Government Efficiency to weed out costly rules and programs, and he is installing experts in his Office of Management and Budget who know how to eliminate expensive job-killing regulations.

Crews said it would be a big battle. Under Biden, he said, Congress approved trillions of dollars in spending in several bills targeting COVID-19, inflation, and infrastructure. All were accompanied by thousands of agency regulations that Congress did little to stall.

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Crews said he hopes Trump pushes Congress to take more responsibility in overseeing regulatory agencies to stop runaway rule-making.

“We have to broaden our ambitions when it comes to addressing the regulatory state and realize that its prime mover is Congress itself. We can target the agencies and do these massive rollbacks in energy and DEI and so forth, but we must keep in mind that Congress ultimately is what enabled all of it,” he added.