Trump vowed to help the working class. He's helping wealthy financial elites instead.

Since when does making America great again mean letting banks rip off Americans?

It's time to exploit customers again.
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President Trump has an unusual solution to help America's tepid economy: Let the financial industry cheat again.

On Friday, the Trump administration rolled out new executive actions, this time calling for a review of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law signed by President Obama. The Labor Department will also have to consider whether a new fiduciary rule Obama put in motion, to be enacted this April, should be rethought or scrapped.

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Jeff Spross

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