Republicans set their sights lower on Dodd-Frank reform

Published April 9, 2017 4:00am ET



President Trump has set expectations high for undoing former President Barack Obama’s financial reform law, saying that he would do “a big number” on it and boasted this week that he would give it a “very major haircut.”

Yet in Congress, lawmakers are setting their ambitions for changing the 2010 Dodd-Frank law lower, acknowledging that even the unified Republican government will not allow for wholesale changes.

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