The Presidency, Congressional Republicans, and Financial Reform: Penn Wharton Public Policy Initiative

While the CHOICE Act would certainly amount to a wholesale repudiation and near complete repeal of Dodd-Frank’s key provisions, a difficult political dynamic is underway that the election of Donald Trump complicates, rather than facilitates. At play is both an ideological difference in how the government should approach financial reform, but also institutional differences that have more to do with presidential politics than partisan ideology.