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Dodd-Frank Turns 10: Trump Administration’s Fair Lending Failures Underscore Need to Strengthen Law
On the ten-year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, consumer watchdog group Allied Progress released a report spotlighting how the Trump administration has worked to undermine fair lending protections and — as the recent PPP program showed — how much work there is left to do to make our financial system accessible to all.
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NYT Bombshell: Trump CFPB Manipulated Research in Rush to Undo Payday Protections
Allied Progress calls on the Bureau to halt its plans to finalize the payday rule until Congress can conduct an investigation into these allegations.
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Second-In-Command of Trump CFPB Spins Through Revolving Door Into Arms of Major Corporate Law Firm
Brian Johnson is cashing in and taking a plum K Street corporate gig after laying the groundwork for this moment for years.
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CFPBWatch.org Launched, Spotlights Trump Administration’s Anti-Consumer Agenda
New Effort from Allied Progress Documents Who Is ‘Weakening the Bureau From Within,’ Exposes Administration’s Corporate Conflicts of Interest
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Payday Industry Lobbyist’s Close Relationship with Mulvaney Raises Questions of Improper Influence in CFPB’s Payday Rulemaking
CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger is called upon to publicly divulge the full extent of the influence Al Simpson, a top payday industry lobbyist and former chief-of-staff to then-Congressman Mick Mulvaney, has had over the Bureau’s payday rulemaking process.
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New Report Examines the Deconstruction of CFPB’s Debt Collection Rulemaking From the Cordray to Kraninger Era
Trump appointees Mick Mulvaney and Kathy Kraninger have reversed course on Richard Cordray’s drive for stronger consumer protections as the debt collection industry spent millions on lobbying.
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Mulvaney Complains He Would Have Moved CFPB to Cleveland But For the Law
Dialing Up the Smugness to an 11 Watch THIS CLIP [skip to 40:00] from former Acting CFPB Director and current White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney’s August 2nd speech at a South Carolina Republican Party event. Moments after celebrating that many USDA workers quit rather than relocate to the new Kansas offices – “what a wonderful…
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Allied Progress Letters to Chairs Cummings and Waters Encourage Investigation Into Whether Race Was Factor In Mulvaney-CFPB’s Anti-Fair Lending Efforts
Inquiry Calls Come In Response to Reports Mulvaney Gave “High Five” to Aide Upon Learning of His History of Racist Writings WASHINGTON, D.C. – In response to the revelation this week that then-CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney reacted with a “high five … sort of, celebration”upon learning last September of former CFPB and current HUD official Eric Blankenstein’s…
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When Mick Mulvaney Learned Of Racist Blogger on Trump CFPB Staff, He Gave Blankenstein a ‘High Five’
The Trump administration had been accused of harboring racist views, but now we know they celebrate them as well.
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BREAKING: Lawsuit Filed: Groups Seek CFPB Records Around Trump-CFPB Aide Eric Blankenstein
Allied Progress and American Oversight Go to Court Against CFPB on Heels of Troubling Report that CFPB Has Ceased Fair Lending Enforcement Actions