On the last day of 2024, Biden completed his administration’s epic march into regulatory history, publishing the biggest bible of red tape ever.

With Tuesday’s release of the Federal Register, a daily listing of new and changing rules and regulations for Main Street and Wall Street to follow, Biden’s total count for the year hit 107,262 pages and 3,248 final rules and regulations.

For perspective, former President Barack Obama, who relied on new regulations and executive orders to push his liberal agenda around a stubborn Congress, held the record until Tuesday with 95,894 pages.

“Biden’s administration now boasts two entries in the Top Five. Page counts, while not a precise measure of regulatory burden, do reflect inclinations toward regulatory enthusiasms when those are present,” said Clyde Wayne Crews, the regulations watchdog at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Posting in Forbes on Tuesday, Crews warned that Biden has an armload more to dump on the nation in his final three weeks as he acts to cement his legacy as a big-government Democrat.

“Of Biden’s 3,248 rules finalized in 2024, 342 were deemed ‘significant’ by agencies and the Office of Management and Budget. Among these, 770 rules were deemed to affect small business, 76 of those classified as significant. The hefty legislative enactments of the past four years on infrastructure, inflation and technology spending are already having far-reaching regulatory effects that the 119th Congress should address, especially since Biden’s 2023 Modernizing Regulatory Review executive order raised the threshold for what his administration considers significant, complicating comparisons with earlier years. That executive order will likely be stricken on Trump’s first day,” Crews said.

“The 2024 Federal Register closed with 1,769 proposed rules in the pipeline, including 175 significant ones. Over 500 of these proposals will also impact small businesses, with 35 acknowledged as ‘significant.’ Trump’s freeze on this pipeline could reshape the regulatory landscape,” he added.

President-elect Donald Trump has promised to cut many of Biden’s regulations and hopes to team with Congress to eliminate recently OK’d rules through the arcane Congressional Review Act.

Ironically, it takes a regulation to eliminate a regulation, and Trump has offered to kill as many as 10 Biden regulations for each one he imposes, which could raise his Federal Register page count.

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Crews said deregulation advocates in Washington are hopeful the incoming president will make good on promises to cut red tape. Certainly, he said, Trump has the record to prove it.

“Rule counts under Trump did drop substantially compared to Obama levels, with 2019’s 2,964 final rules marking the lowest tally since recordkeeping began in the mid-1970s. It is reasonable to expect a similar reduction in the new Trump term,” Crews said in his year-end report.