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Under the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule barring medical debt from appearing on credit reports. Now, the agency is siding with the credit industry groups suing to have the rule vacated.

submitted 19 days ago • 113 comments

🚨 The House could vote on a Continuing Resolution (CR) as soon as TUESDAY! Congress must take advantage of this must-pass CR to install necessary, enforceable guardrails on DOGE and regain their constitutional power of the purse. Call your Reps 👉 5calls.org/issue/cr-con...

submitted 96 days ago • 7 comments

NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.

submitted 103 days ago • 1690 comments

Breaking News: The Trump administration plans to cut 84% of staff at the office that funds the U.S.'s disaster recovery, raising questions about how the country will rebuild from hurricanes, wildfires and other calamities made worse by climate change.

submitted 114 days ago • 168 comments

On Tuesday, Senate Democrats will investigate the Trump-Musk attack on American consumers. I'm inviting Elon Musk. He owes the American people answers on why he’s trying to shut down the financial cop on the beat that prevents big corporations from cheating Americans.

submitted 114 days ago • 180 comments

Egg prices are up 53%.

submitted 122 days ago • 296 comments

Instead of cutting costs for working families, Donald Trump is slashing the federal investments that fund their lifesaving care, fuel their local economy, and lower their health care costs. It’s cruel, short-sighted, and will cost jobs and devastate millions of families.

submitted 126 days ago • 187 comments

Several Democratic lawmakers were denied entry to the U.S. Department of Education on Friday. It was the fourth agency this week that federal employees blocked congressional Democrats from entering.

submitted 126 days ago • 181 comments

Musk's latest power grab: your Medicare benefits. Elon - you're looking in the wrong place. Private insurers in Medicare Advantage overcharged taxpayers by at least $83 billion in 2024 alone.

submitted 128 days ago • 313 comments

Trump 2.0 has already laid waste to democratic norms, precedents and even some laws. Paralyzed by the breadth of disruption, many of the president's demoralized critics have been left sputtering: "He can't do that." And yet he is.

submitted 131 days ago • 37 comments

Day One has turned into Day Seven, and those eggs are getting even more expensive. cnn.it/4h8W4s4

submitted 138 days ago • 508 comments

Donald Trump made a lot of promises when he was running to lower costs for families. What did he talk about on Day One? Next to nothing on lowering costs.

submitted 144 days ago • 126 comments

On January 6, 2021 Donald Trump attempted a coup He lied about the election Ginned up a “fake electors” scheme Tried to coerce election officials into saying he won Threatened his own VP And dispatched MAGA thugs to attack the Capitol 140 Capitol Police were maimed Several died Never Forget

submitted 160 days ago • 133 comments

President Joe Biden is expected to permanently ban future offshore oil and gas development in parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in a way that could be difficult for the incoming Trump administration to undo

submitted 162 days ago • 45 comments

The Biden administration, in a final push to shore up the nation’s pandemic preparedness infrastructure before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, announced that it is committing an additional $306 million toward efforts to ward off a potential outbreak of bird flu in humans.

submitted 163 days ago • 80 comments

The House Ethics Committee released a 37-page report into Matt Gaetz, the Republican of Florida, and allegations that he engaged in an array of illegal and untoward conduct, including having sex with a 17-year-old girl. Here are the key takeaways.

submitted 173 days ago • 98 comments

For a moment, it looked like Congress would actually enact reforms of controversial pharmacy benefit managers after several years of introducing bills and holding hearings.

submitted 175 days ago • 35 comments

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

submitted 178 days ago • 526 comments