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He was talking about decisions by AG Sessions that reverse the Holder/Lynch policies. Here is the full context within the speech he gave in FL:

“Under Attorney General Sessions’s leadership, the executive branch respects the other branches of government and avoids encroaching upon their functions.

For example, General Sessions recently announced that the Department will no longer take actions that “have the effect of adopting new regulatory requirements or amending the law.”

Congress has given executive agencies the ability to issue regulations, or make rules in a certain subject area, but only if agencies do so through a congressionally approved process. Our policy change arose from Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand’s efforts to pursue regulatory reform.

Jesse Panuccio, a Floridian who is here today, has been working closely with General Brand on regulatory reform.

From now on, our Department will not usurp Congress’s job of making the rules. We will stick to enforcing them.

Another example of our commitment not to encroach upon Congress’s role is the termination of third-party settlement practices.

Our Department often negotiates settlements with companies that are accused of wrongdoing. The money should go to victims who were harmed by the wrongful conduct. If any money remains beyond what is needed to reimburse victims, the remainder should go to the American government.

Attorney General Sessions ordered our Department to stop supplanting Congress’s power of the purse by using the threat of prosecution to appropriate money from private defendants and divert it to favored special interest groups. It is Congress’s job to decide how to spend the government’s money.

Those policy changes implement the rule of law. “