After a relatively slow Thanksgiving holiday, Washington burst back to life this week as Senate Republicans raced to round up votes for their tax overhaul and top Democrats pressed Rep. John Conyers to resign over allegations of sexual harassment. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump infuriated one of America’s closest allies when he retweeted an anti-Muslim video from a far-right British group.

Away from Pennsylvania Avenue, the biggest news came over a bureaucratic leadership fight at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Trump at least temporarily won in court. But beyond that power struggle, the administration made a number of quiet policy changes, rolling back Obama-era regulations and stamping a new conservative imprint on the government. Here’s how Trump changed policy this week:

1. Stockbrokers can breathe easier

One of Obama’s last, and most controversial rules was the 2016 “fiduciary standard,” designed to prevent stockbrokers from putting their interests ahead of those of their clients. This was fiercely opposed by the financial industry, and in the Trump era, it’s been the subject of some confusing back-and-forth. In May, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta announced that he would allow part of the rule to take effect in early June—which cheered liberals—but announced not long afterward that he wasn’t going to actually enforce those pieces of the rule until January 1, 2018. Then, at the end of August, the DOL proposed delaying key parts of the rule until well into 2019, which would give the department time to rewrite the policy altogether.

This week, the DOL under Acosta made that 18-month delay official. The Labor Department calls it a transition period, during which stockbrokers must comply with a looser set of “impartial conduct standards”—but the agency also said it would not enforce even those standards against any entity that was working in “good faith” to comply.

2. Commerce makes two trade moves against China

Trump spent much of his presidential campaign bashing China’s trade practices and raising fears about an impending trade war with America’s biggest trading partner. But in office, he has surprisingly targeted Canada instead, imposing new duties on Canadian lumber and taking a hard line over NAFTA renegotiations.

Now there are signs that the Trump administration is starting to take a tougher line on Chinese trade. On Tuesday, the Commerce Department opened an anti-dumping case into Chinese aluminum. The opening of such a case is generally unremarkable—but unlike every case for the past 25 years, it wasn’t triggered by a request from a company or industry group. Instead, it was “self-initiated.” Also on Tuesday, the administration imposed new duties on Chinese tool chests and cabinets.

Neither of these moves will cause major changes in the U.S.-China trade relationship. But they are a signal that the relationship, which began with a small 10-point trade agreement in May, is becoming more hostile.

3. USDA rolls back Michelle Obama’s school lunch rules

In 2012, the Department of Agriculture issued a sweeping rewrite of the rules around school lunches, an effort to get kids to eat more fruit and vegetables and reduce their intake of sodium and fat. The controversial overhaul was a linchpin of former first lady Michelle Obama’s healthy living campaign, but was panned by some schools and Republican lawmakers who said it didn’t give the schools the flexibility to provide students with food that they would actually eat.

Now, schools may never have to comply with key pieces of the rule. On Wednesday, the USDA delayed the new sodium standards by “at least” three years and indicated that the agency may rewrite the standard altogether. It also granted schools additional flexibility to meet the whole grain standards and allowed schools to serve flavored milk, including chocolate milk, which the Obama-era rule didn’t allow.

The changes weren’t exactly a surprise, as Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, in one of his first speeches in office, announced his intent to roll back the school lunch rules. But they are a clear message that a new conservative era is underway at USDA.

4. Old bombs are back in action

In 2008, the Department of Defense under Secretary Robert Gates announced that the United States would phase out the use of its older stock of cluster bombs by 2019. Human rights groups oppose the use of cluster bombs because they explode indiscriminately over large areas, risking the lives of many civilians, and more than 100 countries have called for a ban on the weapon. Under the new policy, the U.S. would only use modern cluster munitions that explode at least 99 percent of the time, or had safeguards in place if they didn’t explode, so that dangerous, unexploded cluster bombs could not kill civilians years or decades after they were initially dropped.

But as the deadline for meeting that policy approaches, the Pentagon this week revealed that it is reversing course. Multiple news organizations reported that a memo from Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan said the military will continue to use the older stock of cluster munitions “until the capabilities they provide are replaced with enhanced and more reliable munitions.” The Pentagon later confirmed that the agency was reversing the 2008 policy. Human rights groups and Democrats, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, slammed the move, saying that it was past due for the U.S. to stop using the older cluster bombs.

5. State Department extends extreme vetting

The Trump administration has faced many setbacks as it tried to implement an executive order to block or inhibit people from six Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. But on Trump’s promise to impose so-called extreme vetting on people entering the country, he’s had much more success after the State Department implemented new questions for visa applicants on an emergency basis earlier this year.

On Monday, State issued a notice asking for comment on a proposal to extend this extreme vetting for three years. The new proposal would not make any substantive changes to the emergency measures implemented in May, including questions on visa applicants’ social media accounts. The public has 30 days to comment on the proposal.

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