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 Sunday, January 24, 2021

On his first day in office, President Joe Biden quickly set about

undoing some of his predecessor’s signature policies: He said the

United States would rejoin the Paris Agreement; he halted

construction of a wall along the Mexican border; and he

ended the ban on travel to the U.S. from Muslim-majority countries.

Tucked into all of those high-profile moves,

though, was a memo with a title seemingly

designed to be ignored:

“Modernizing Regulatory Review.” Sent to the

press at 9:43 p.m. on Wednesday in the middle of the

Tom Hanks-led inaugural celebration, the White House was not expecting the dry document to drive headlines or set American hearts aflutter.