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Groups Call on Dem Senate Leaders to Appoint Bold Nominees to Vital Independent Agencies
Allied Progress joined nearly three dozen national organizations in calling on Democratic Senate Leadership to nominate individuals with unimpeachable independence.
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Workers Take a Back Seat as Acosta Drives Toward Confirmation Following Committee Vote
“Today’s vote was yet another example of lawmakers ignoring a Trump nominee’s glaring deficiencies and instead marching with the President in lockstep as he hands important economic posts in our government over to those who are more interested in pleasing Wall Street insiders and powerful special interests than the hard-working Americans who built this country.”
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Employment Law Daily: Acosta Facing Tough Questions at Nomination Hearing
Most commenters expect Acosta to be confirmed. However, that does not me the nominee will not face some tough questioning. On the day of the hearing, Allied Progress released a report supporting the nationwide progressive advocacy organization’s characterization of Acosta’s record as “one of scandal, mismanagement, and a callous disregard for the concerns of American workers.”
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The Nation: Trump’s SEC Nominee Has a Major Conflict-of-Interest Problem
An analysis of its recent clients published by Allied Progress estimates that Clayton would have to withdraw “from cases involving nearly one-third of the institutions on the Financial Stability Board’s list of ‘global systemically important banks.’”
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Trump SEC Chair Nominee Exposed for “Nutty Views” and Record as Wall Street’s “Legal Yes Man”
If confirmed, Jay Clayton would be Wall Street’s top cop.
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Trump Labor Nominee Defends Sweetheart Plea Deal in Billionaire’s Sex Case Involving Underage Girls
Alex Acosta defended the sweetheart plea deal as a “point of pride.”
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Politico: Sanders, Warren Gang Up Against Trump’s SEC Nominee
“Clayton’s nomination signals that President Donald Trump is putting Wall Street ahead of hard-working Americans in what amounts to a hostile takeover of our country’s future,” said the liberal coalition, which includes Our Revolution, Public Citizen, CREDO and Allied Progress.
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Labor Nominee Acosta’s Record Exposed: Scandal, Mismanagement, Callous Disregard for Concerns of Hard-Working Americans
Acosta’s record was exposed as one of scandal, mismanagement, and a callous disregard for the concerns of American workers.
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U.S. News & World Report: Alexander Acosta Still an Unknown Walking Into Labor Confirmation
“Anyone willing to look beyond Mr. Acosta’s Wikipedia page would see that he is a controversial figure whose mismanagement of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division led to scandal and a years-long investigation,” Karl Frisch, executive director of progressive advocacy group Allied Progress, said in a statement last month. “Simply put: the last time Alexander Acosta managed a division of a federal agency, it ended in scandal and now President Trump wants him to manage an entire federal agency.”
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Politico’s Morning Money: Donovan Gets Treasury Gig, Left Reacts
Allied Progress’s Karl Frisch: “President Trump should give candidate Trump a call if he’s going to keep bringing Goldman Sachs executives into his administration. By handing over our economy to Goldman Sachs, Trump continues to betray working class Americans who took him at his word when he promised to ‘drain the swamp.’”