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Center Square: Polis takes a table saw to hundreds of executive orders

Gov. Jared Polis this week took executive action to reverse over 200 executive orders that he argues are obsolete.

“Today, I took a table saw to outdated and wasteful Executive Orders, cutting away at bureaucracy to make our government more efficient,” the governor said in a statement.

Another report released this week by the Colorado Chamber of Commerce ranked the state as the sixth most regulated in the U.S., with almost 200,000 business regulations. According to the report, 45% of those regulations “can be classified as being duplicative or redundant.”

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