Last month, the incoming mayor of New York City said of his agenda, “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about.” That’s a dangerous way of thinking; it’s how you get government growing unbounded. We saw a lot of this type of thinking during the Biden years, and Republicans have spent the last year cleaning up the mess it created.

During the Biden administration, we saw regulations, rules, and mandates creeping into seemingly every facet of Americans’ lives. We had the federal government mandating masks for two-year-olds even when they were outside. The EPA was trying to regulate puddles and temporary streams, saddling farmers and ranchers with massive compliance costs. There were electric vehicle mandates, restrictions on energy production, and of course, a reckless tax and spending spree that caused a yearslong inflation crisis.

Since taking the reins of government in January, President Trump and Republicans have worked to clean up the consequences of Democrats’ big-government actions. President Trump has repealed a number of burdensome regulations and rules, and in Congress we have used the Congressional Review Act to stop other executive actions from the Biden years.

Just this year, we’ve repealed four separate rules on appliances, which had become the latest focus of Democrats’ radical environmental agenda. There were new standards for commercial fridges and freezers, which the Energy Department estimated would take 90 years to deliver savings to businesses. Another rule sought to take gas water heaters off the market, raising costs for homeowners and imperiling American manufacturing jobs. Then there were new requirements for household appliances, which one manufacturers’ association described as a “burden without benefit.”

We have also worked to dismantle Democrats’ regulatory assault on Americans’ cars. President Trump repealed the electric vehicle mandates. In Congress, Republicans blocked waivers that would have allowed California to impose a de facto electric vehicle mandate on the entire country. Then we repealed a Biden tire manufacturing rule that would have actually increased emissions of carbon dioxide and methane while costing tire manufacturers millions of dollars each year.

Republicans have also followed through on our promise to unleash American energy, and a big part of that is lifting unnecessary burdens and restrictions the Biden administration placed on energy producers. We stopped implementation of the Biden natural gas tax, which would have driven up energy prices and destroyed American jobs. And we’ve taken action to restore energy development in places where the Biden administration blocked it, restoring Americans’ access to our nation’s abundant natural resources.

Forty years ago, President Reagan said, “the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.” While Democrats may think there’s nothing that can’t be improved with a little more government intervention, we know what too often happens when government decides to get involved. Regulations often mean costs, which are almost always passed on to the consumer. Republicans have been hard at work this year lifting regulatory burdens, and we’ll continue our efforts to restore common sense and bring costs down for the American people.