EXCLUSIVE — Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) has introduced a bill that would codify five Trump-era executive orders relating to deregulation into law.

With this bill, titled the Red Tape Reduction Act , Hinson hopes to reign in "the unconstitutional fourth branch" of "unelected bureaucrats" who are ushering in rules and regulations that are not subject to the approval of Congress.

"On President Biden's first day in office, he canceled the Keystone pipeline," the freshman congresswoman said in a Thursday interview with the Washington Examiner. "By the stroke of a pen and without congressional approval — which is where my intent behind this bill comes in — he was able to kill singlehandedly 60,000 jobs."

Hinson cited this as an example of President Joe Biden's "war on American energy," noting that it "drives up costs for consumers."

The Iowa Republican also pointed to "the rule to require vehicles be electric by 2030," as well as "Student loan debt, aka transferring debt to the backs of taxpayers."

"Clearly, he could not get these things down through Congress — they're unpopular," she said. "So, instead, he is emboldening a fourth branch of government to do his bidding, and that's the unelected bureaucrats creating these costly regulations and truly subverting the will of the people to ram through a very unpopular agenda."

Hinson's bill aims to put five of former President Donald Trump's executive orders into law. The orders each relate to deregulation and the shrinking of the federal bureaucracy.

With those executive orders, Trump required that departments and agencies eliminate two regulations for each new one. He also tasked agencies with establishing Regulatory Reform Officers to ensure that regulatory reforms are being enforced and that the cost and amount of new regulations are offset. Further, he instituted Executive Order 13891, which prohibited regulators from treating guidance documents as binding rules, noting that Congress is the sole legislative power.

Further, Trump used his executive power to make agencies more transparent by providing fair public notice regarding the application and enforcement of rules. Additionally, the former president moved to more stringently apply Administrative PAYGO, requiring budget neutrality, to federal agencies.

According to Hinson, it's important to reinstitute these actions. "Congress should have a say here. Unelected bureaucrats should not be having so much power over the daily lives of Iowans and Americans," she explained.

Federal entities and their current regulations under the Biden administration are hurting Americans, the congresswoman claims, especially Iowans, who she represents. "You just look at driving up the cost of doing business, whether it's in manufacturing or agriculture," she said.

Hinson further used the recent Supreme Court ruling on the Biden administration's 2023 Waters of the United States rule, explaining that it "was about unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., coming in and trying to regulate waterways. Puddles, ditches, and streams are very different than a navigable waterway — which was the actual congressional intent."

Last month, the Supreme Court narrowed the scope of the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers's authority to regulate WOTUS.

Praising the decision, the congresswoman said, "Biden's intent though with WOTUS, if you look at the map of the state of Iowa, was that basically 97% of the state would be regulated as federal land."

"The way I see it is if he could, he would," she added.

She further reiterated that "This is the unconstitutional fourth branch coming in and saying, we're going to drive up this cost by forcing farmers and producers to comply. And they're gonna try to do that with climate too."

"We should be the ones who make these decisions. We know what's best for our districts back home — what will help and what will hurt. That doesn't mean we don't need to have rules, but that should be up to the people and the people's representatives," Hinson explained.

With this measure, she said, "I'm trying to do my part as an appropriator to slow the growth of government, while at the same time making sure that we're returning this power to the people's elected representatives."

Notably from Iowa, the all-important state at the center of the current Republican presidential primary campaigns, Hinson, like other members of Iowa's delegation, committed to waiting to consider endorsing a candidate until after the state's Republican caucus.

Trump endorsed Hinson for Congress in 2022 before the midterm elections.

While she isn't making an endorsement anytime soon, she is confident that each of the prospective candidates will share her vision of cutting red tape and minimizing government.

"I think everybody's on the same page here. Everyone I've heard who wants to be the chief executive of this country believes that more power should lie with the people," she said.

She closed by reiterating that "I think that just in general, when it comes to government regulation, we should be thinking about subtraction, not addition."