Cut burdensome regulations and unshackle job creators
Cut burdensome regulations to help job creators.
Occurrences
In Congress, I’ll fight to create jobs by cutting red tape and unshackling job creators to get the people of southwestern Pennsylvania working again.
Evidence
The campaign biography says Reschenthaler is 'a fighter for cutting spending, lowering taxes, and eliminating job-killing regulations.'
Reschenthaler said 'outdated tax codes and burdensome regulations penalize legal operators' while promoting the Discriminatory Gaming Tax Repeal Act to repeal the federal sports-betting excise tax.
The bill text states it is 'to clarify the Department of State’s exclusive regulatory authority over the au pair cultural exchange program,' and Congress.gov shows it was introduced on 06/26/2025 and referred to the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Assessments
Reschenthaler made multiple concrete federal efforts to reduce regulatory burdens, including introducing bills on sports-betting excise taxes and au pair program regulation that had not become law. More importantly, during his House service he materially advanced enacted deregulatory policy by helping manage House floor consideration of the Fiscal Responsibility Act, which became law in 2023 and included permitting and NEPA streamlining provisions framed as cutting red tape for energy and infrastructure development. Because the promise was broad rather than tied to a specific bill or sector, this supports full delivery in the same federal term, though not every later deregulatory bill he backed succeeded.
The evidence shows Reschenthaler made the anti-regulation promise and took concrete legislative actions framed as reducing burdensome regulation or related costs for businesses, including bills on sports-betting excise taxes and au pair program regulatory authority. However, the cited evidence does not show that these efforts became law or produced an implemented regulatory cut. Because there was a serious legislative attempt but no delivered promised outcome, the appropriate outcome is never with an effort badge.