How’s that Dodd-Frank reform — the Financial Choice Act — coming along? Unless you’ve been under a rock for the last month, you’ll have noticed that things are not going so well for the Trump administration, and by extension, Republicans in the House and Senate. Between the Russia investigation, the FBI director’s firing, and a healthcare bill that no one likes, the administration and Republicans generally have been taking a beating in the press and at home.
Why, you ask, is this important? Because each day that the press and the public are focused on Russia scandals, and the American peoples’ general irritation with their elected representatives is one less day our institutions can focus meaningfully on the country’s business and get something done. When you add to that the public drama of the Republican caucus’s inability to agree on just about anything, you have the self-imposed gridlock within the governing party we see on a daily basis. Will the Republicans be able to get the Financial Choice Act across the finish line?
