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GOP Banking Chair: Dodd-Frank Dismantling is First-Year Priority for Trump

Jeb Hensarling
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Dismantling President Obama’s financial reform law is not a priority for President-elect Trump’s first 100 days, the author of GOP legislation to undo the law said Thursday, but it is a task for Trump’s first year, reports The Washington Examiner.

Jeb Hensarling, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said he’s discussed ditching the law with Trump, writes Joseph Lawler.

“The president-elect committed to dismantle Dodd-Frank. It’s going to happen in the first year.”

Hensarling has said that some of the law could be dismantled through executive action and more could be undone using budget reconciliation.

Read the Examiner article.

 

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