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Unlawful for Trump to Fire Consumer Bureau’s Director Like It’s His Reality Show
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray’s work has been a cause for celebration, not a cause for dismissal.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer: Now That Trump Dumped Financial Service Regs, What’s the Response?
Karl Frisch, executive director of Allied Progress, a liberal interest group: “If anyone thought Trump filling his administration with Goldman Sachs executives wouldn’t result in financial policy that stacks the deck against hard-working Americans, this should finally dispel that notion.“
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Trump Turns Over Wall Street Reform and Your Retirement Savings to Goldman Sachs
President will sign executive order chipping away at Wall Street Reforms and will allow your financial advisors to maintain conflicts of interest.
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Housing Wire: Mixed Reactions to Trump’s Push for Dodd-Frank Overhaul
“If anyone thought Trump filling his administration with Goldman Sachs executives wouldn’t result in financial policy that stacks the deck against hardworking Americans, this should finally dispel that notion,” Frisch said.
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Senate Finance GOP Suspend Rules to Advance Nominee Who Admits He Wasn’t Truthful with Them
“This is parliamentary masochism. How else do you explain Sen. Hatch bending over backwards to assist Mnuchin who admits he wasn’t truthful with Hatch’s committee?”
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CNN: Trump Treasury Nominee Mnuchin Told Committee Staff His Responses Had Not Been Truthful
During a private meeting Mnuchin told committee staff that his responses to them had not been truthful.
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Senate Trio Co-Sponsoring Bill That Would Cripple Consumer Bureau Has Taken $5.3 Million from CFPB Regulated Industries
These Senators have received more than $5 million from powerful financial interests to re-stack the deck against consumers.
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UPDATED: Confirmation Hearing for Trump Labor Pick Delayed for 4th Time. What’s Puzder Hiding?
Trump administration has delayed the confirmation hearing of Labor Secretary nominee Andy Puzder for a fourth time.
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Senate Finance Committee Democrats Right to Boycott Mnuchin Confirmation Vote
Mnuchin “Was Caught Willfully Misleading Senators.” — “Democrats Were Right to Boycott Today’s Confirmation Markup.”
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Law360: Dems Boycott Vote On Trump’s HHS, Treasury Noms
Liberal activists said that the Democratic boycott was necessary and far from unprecedented. One such group, Allied Progress, noted that Republicans engaged in a similar action against Gina McCarthy, Obama’s second nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.