New DOGE AI Tool Aims to Slash 50% of All Federal Regulations by 2026
The federal regulatory apparatus is a Gordian knot. DOGE's new AI tool is the sword Trump is wielding to break through it, with an ambitious plan to cut 50% of all federal regulations by 2026.
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by Texas Hughes
July 31, 2025
The Deep State is a budget-busting, bureaucratic tyranny, crushing capitalist meritocracy and social values. It is a self-directed, out-of-control monster that fights MAGA tooth and claw.
However, the brilliant computer “nerds” of Elon Musk’s Department Of Governmental Efficiency are already using the first version of their Artificial Intelligence software tool. It may eventually curb the Deep State as much as possible. From an article at The Washington Post:
DOGE builds AI tool to cut 50 percent of federal regulations
The tool, called the ‘DOGE AI Deregulation Decision Tool,’ is supposed to analyze roughly 200,000 federal regulations to determine which can be eliminated because they are no longer required by law, according to a PowerPoint presentation… Roughly 100,000 of those rules would be deemed worthy of trimming, the PowerPoint estimates — mostly through the automated tool with some staff feedback…
The tool has already been used to complete ‘decisions on 1,083 regulatory sections’ at the Department of Housing and Urban Development in under two weeks, according to the PowerPoint, and to write ‘100% of deregulations’ at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Three HUD employees — as well as documents obtained by The Post — confirmed that an AI tool was recently used to review hundreds, if not more than 1,000, lines of regulations at that agency and suggest edits or deletions.
But it won’t stop there:
The proposed use of AI to accomplish swift, massive deregulation expands upon the Trump administration’s work to embed AI across the government — using it for everything from fighting wars to reviewing taxes. And it dovetails with the administration’s aim to unwind regulations government-wide, even without AI.
You can read the DOGE PowerPoint for yourself here:
DOGE has developed this initial, primitive tool to evaluate what we can think of as the internal rationality of federal regulations. If half of them can be eliminated because they are out of date, redundant, or mutually conflictive, that suggests that half of what bureaucrats do is useless waste.
This is huge. A main source of Deep State’s bureaucratic power is writing the federal regulations that describe how to apply and implement laws passed by Congress.
Note that this scale of information is beyond the ability of a single mind, or team of minds, to read, absorb, and comprehend, particularly in a single presidential term. Only AI-level software can hope to deal with this massive blob of unrationalized data in a timeframe that would make real change possible.
Most Deep Staters believe the socialistic values they learned from liberal professors at elite colleges. They wrote those 200,000 regulations that interpret laws into rules, and those rules naturally reflect their woke values.
Even when Trump appoints conservatives to top-level government positions, his appointees are faced with staff who are implementing rules mostly written by leftists.
An AI software program that identifies redundant and conflicting regulations, and maybe justifies eliminating half of them, is, effectively, a regulation weed-whacker against a leftist bureaucracy.
One may hope that eliminating half the regulations means only half as many bureaucrats with half the operating budget are “needed” for government to function, meaning we can quickly slash half the waste.
This DOGE software is clearly a prototype destined to go through many iterations of improvement. It may be years before governmental efficiency and cost reduction is rationalized and under some kind of control. But AI gives that goal an actual glimmer of reality.
Deep Staters will hate it. They may still write new rules, but an advanced DOGE AI will vet and test each new rule for how well it fits with all the other rules.
I predict that this initial AI software will also be adapted to evaluate how the smorgasbord of sloppy, pork-barrel laws proposed by Congress impacts existing regulations.
DOGE AI could identify irrational, conflicting provisions in proposed laws before Congress votes on them.
DOGE AI will read and analyze new laws, evaluate them against existing regulations, and quickly report what is found. The sneaky bits that favor special interests, buried in the thousands of never-read pages of new laws, will be revealed.
The timeline is as ambitious as the goal:
Over the next five months, agencies will work with the AI tool to identify regulations to kill, respond to public comments about the proposed deletions and submit formal deregulation proposals, the PowerPoint says. The goal is to wrap everything up and “Relaunch America on Jan. 20, 2026,” the PowerPoint states.
Is that even possible? We’re about to find out. But even the fact that the President wants to move so aggressively is highly encouraging.
The existing irrationality of laws is a great cloud of confusion protecting the interests of powerful elites and burdening Americans with trillions of dollars in needless costs. That great cloud of confusion is about to evaporate in the light of these new AI tools.
I certainly never thought I’d see a real-world way to make such a massive body of laws internally rational, no matter how imperfectly.
Musk’s genius nerds will someday be recognized as worthy of their own monuments in Washington, D.C. Musk deserves the biggest and best place among those statues.
— Texas Hughes is the pen name of a member of the Texas Legislature. This article is republished by permission of my friend Dr. Jack Wheeler’s To The Point News.
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