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Today, the White House is moving to facilitate quickly freezing or repealing regulations impacting what we eat, how we travel and how safe we are at work. The sweeping changes would hit more than 400 federal agencies that regulate virtually all aspects of American life.

For more, KCBS Radio anchors Margie Shafer and Eric Thomas spoke with Steve Cicala, co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research on the Economic Analysis of Regulation.