Is Trump's pro-Wall Street agenda losing steam?

It sure looks like it

Bad news for Wall Street.
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President Trump is not quiet about his distaste for financial regulation. He regularly claims new rules imposed on Wall Street by the Dodd-Frank reform bill of 2010 squeezed credit and harmed the economy. The data to actually back up this argument is scant to nonexistent. But Trump isn't one to be slowed down by a mere lack of evidence.

What could slow down Trump's pro-Wall Street push, though, is political reality. Two recent developments illustrate the point.

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.