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New York Times Magazine: The Bureau of Resistance
How long can a progressive federal agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, stand firm against the deregulatory pressures of the Trump administration?
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Prediction: GOP Will Hurl Same Tired Attacks at Consumer Bureau, Cordray, at Today’s Hearing
House Financial Services Committee has held more than sixty hearings targeting the Consumer Bureau with false attacks.
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President Trump Can’t Comb Over the Facts, Dodd-Frank Doesn’t Need a “Major Haircut”
In meeting with Wall Street leaders and corporate executives, Trump backed further away from his commitment to drain the swamp.
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The Hill: Dems Debate Working with GOP on Consumer Bureau Revamp
Progressive groups are pushing Democrats to defend the bureau, the brainchild of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). The party’s liberal base, still fuming over the 2016 elections, does not want to see any compromise with Republicans over policies won by the left during the Obama era.
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Justice Department Brief Challenging Consumer Bureau’s Independence Misses the Constitutional Mark
Attorney General Sessions goes to bat against CFPB for a Trump administration filled with Wall Street insiders and Goldman Sachs alumni.
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The Mortgage Report: The Department of Justice Changed Its Tune, What Now?
On Friday, the U.S Department of Justice (DOJ) turned against the CFPB, as the DOJ formally announced their support of PHH Corp in the case against the CFPB.
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American Banker: Democrats Are Spoiling for a Fight Over the CFPB
”If Trump is foolish enough to take on the very government agency that works to wrestle money back from corrupt financial institutions on behalf of American consumers, then a fight he shall have,” said Karl Frisch, the executive director of Allied Progress, a progressive advocacy group.
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Reuters: U.S. Consumer Agency Seeks Full Court Review of Ruling Against Its Structure
“This is an important first step in the fight to overturn the court’s reckless, politically motivated decision that was designed to cripple the CFPB,” said Karl Frisch, executive director at Allied Progress, which has lobbied the bureau to tighten regulation of the payday lending industry.
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The Hill: CFPB Asks Full Court to Rehear Constitutionality Case
Allied Progress, a nonprofit research organization, called CFPB’s request Friday an “important first step in the fight to overturn the court’s reckless ruling.”
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Group Backs CFPB Push for Panel Ruling in Politically Motivated Case Cheered by Wall Street
CFPB seeks to uphold historic consumer protections, reverse ruling of D.C. Circuit Court of appeals by Republican-appointed three-judge panel.