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Politico: Justice Department to end Obama-era ‘Operation Choke Point’
Karl Frisch, executive director of Allied Progress, blasted the letter as “a massive giveaway to predatory payday lenders and other shady financial scam-artists.
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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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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.’”
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Politico’s Morning Money: First Look – Clayton and Russia?
“Trump’s SEC pick is (unsurprisingly) another nominee with Russia ties, and Allied Progress is releasing a letter … calling on the Banking Committee to release all of his former clients before his hearing.
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Politico’s Morning Money: Puzder Has a Nanny Problem
Allied Progress’s Karl Frisch: “Late tonight we learned that the GOP Senate has delayed Trump Labor nominee Andy Puzder’s confirmation hearing for a FIFTH TIME with no explanation. What are they hiding? Each time this hearing is delayed, we’ll send this statement out just like we did after the third and fourth delay.”
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Politico’s Morning Score: PCCC, Allied Progress, Others Expand Ad Buy Targeting Mnuchin
Three progressive groups are expanding an ad buy warning senators not to vote to confirm President Donald Trump’s treasury pick, Steve Mnuchin.
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Politico’s Morning Money: More Ads Hit Mnuchin
Via release out Wednesday morning: “PCCC, Allied Progress Action and Demand Progress Action are doubling down on pressure against senators to oppose Steven Mnuchin, expanding an ad campaign.
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Politico’s Morning Money: New Ads Target Mnuchin
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee along with Allied Progress Action and Demand Progress Action on Wednesday is going up with new ads targeting Treasury nominee Steven Mnuchin over his tenure at OneWest Bank. The ads will begin airing on MSNBC, CNN and FOX News, a day before Mnuchin’s hearing at Senate Finance and will run over 400 times in Nevada, Arizona, Iowa, and Washington, DC, according to the group.
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Politico’s Morning Money: Mnuchin’s Tax Haven? Left Reacts.
Via Allied Progress’s Karl Frisch: “According to these disclosures, Steven Mnuchin recently pocketed another $40 million from OneWest, the scandal-plagued foreclosure mill of a bank that he once ran and that has been accused of fraud and deceptive practices too many times to count.”
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Politico’s Influence: The Resistance
Allied Progress booked two six-figure network and cable television ad buys in Arizona and Nevada calling on Sens. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Dean Heller (R-Nev.) to reject Steven Mnuchin for Treasury secretary, highlighting the foreclosure record of the bank he used to run.