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No one wants a paper trail because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is colloquially known as “stealing from the US Treasury.”

submitted 4 days ago • 160 comments

CapOne has a pending merger application before the banking agencies to acquire Discover and further consolidate the credit card/payments market. Dropping this enforcement action for cheating consumers out of interest payments eliminates a potential obstacle to that deal.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

If you have a: - Credit card - Checking account - Savings account - Mortgage - Car loan - Student loan - Venmo account The fight to protect the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is your fight.

submitted 11 days ago • 95 comments

As @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social said: Mike Johnson leads an NPC — Non Player Congress

submitted 16 days ago • 1260 comments

Where is AARP?????? Top Social Security official exits after clash with Musk’s DOGE over data Yet another top career staffer is leaving the administration amid a disagreement over a request by Elon Musk’s team for sensitive government information. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 16 days ago • 16 comments

UPDATE: We’re t-minus 30 minutes to midnight and the DOGE team has yet to bring the receipts.

submitted 17 days ago • 185 comments

The erosion of civil rights never stops at one group. In coming weeks, Trump’s DOGE plans to cut staff who investigate complaints of employment discrimination in the federal workplace as well as a VA office that works to ensure all veterans receive equal access to care.

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

NOAA is reportedly on the DOGE chopping block. The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US. A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Again, this isn't about efficiency.

submitted 19 days ago • 544 comments

Pope Francis' remarkable rebuke of JD Vance and Trumpism lays bare an essential truth: Trump is overseeing a massive and systematic abandonment of obligation to the global poor, and Vance's theological obfuscation can't make that disappear. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1914...

submitted 22 days ago • 118 comments

When Musk's minions forced their way into USAID's servers, they made themselves "super administrators" meaning they had access to workers' Social Security numbers, credit histories, and home addresses. They may have well broken the law. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

submitted 24 days ago • 247 comments

Actual corruption

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

People are already dying because of what Musk and Trump have done in the last two weeks.

submitted 26 days ago • 17 comments

Elon Musk is very unpopular www.politico.com/live-updates...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

True story: I worked on the law that help set up the CFPB. I’ve also needed their help. A few years ago my servicer didn’t return an escrow from when I refi’d. $3000. For over a yr would say they sent it but didn’t. 1 complaint to the CFPB & it was fixed. The CFPB fights for you!

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Where’s Musk expressing concern about this doxxing?

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Yep. And some of those actions have the potential for incurring serious liability.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

EXCLUSIVE: The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments, tax returns, and more.

submitted 30 days ago • 157 comments

If the 60 Minutes team doesn't all quit, their next piece should be on how Paramount bribed Trump to get favorable treatment on a merger.

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

submitted 30 days ago • 1699 comments

“Stopping the work of the CFPB means inviting scammers and swindlers into working families’ bank accounts,” said @jessevantol.bsky.social , President and CEO of NCRC. ncrc.org/ncrc-stateme...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

HUD secretaries from both parties have agreed for decades: housing ends homelessness. But Scott Turner rejects the evidence, supports criminalization, and [checks notes] won't say whether he'd support sending people who can’t afford housing to detention camps. ⬇️

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Make no mistake, the federal funding ‘temporary pause’ debacle was a trial balloon. Trump is testing the limits of what he can get away with and identifying where he needs to apply more pressure to break the remaining safeguards in our democratic institutions. Thankfully, we still have some.

submitted 35 days ago • 49 comments

Reporters: Please stop calling things DEI that are not DEI. This is only cementing the propaganda being used to legitimize the dismantling of all types of initiatives that are not DEI as well as legitimize efforts to end civil rights enforcement. Be specific with your language. Be accurate.

submitted 35 days ago • 234 comments

🚨OMB sent a memo to federal agencies this evening, requiring all federal loans and grants be paused by 5pm tomorrow. 🚨 Financial assistance is defined here to include all federal grants/loans except those that provide direct assistance to individuals.

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

It has come to my attention that I have an impersonator on here. Please report and don’t follow! Here’s the fake profile with an extra L @jessevantoll.bsky.social

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Gee what should we all call it when a president gets rid of an Executive Order that desegregated federal contracting?

submitted 42 days ago • 253 comments

Donald Trump has revoked EO11246 signed by LBJ in 1965, mandating equal opportunities by federal contractors.

submitted 43 days ago • 136 comments

Horrifying. For him and democracy.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Delete DOGE

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Despite Trump’s Tough Talk On PBMs, GOP House Lets Them Off The Hook www.forbes.com/sites/brucej...

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, absolutely contemptible. And these outlets are choosing to do this. There is no requirement to cover it this way.

submitted 75 days ago • 12 comments

Trump is already undermining the strong economy he inherited.

submitted 77 days ago • 29 comments

It’s not inconceivable to me that the House ends up being so ungovernable that they can’t pass a tax cut extension or even a border bill. Never a good sign when you are threatening to primary people 2 years before the next election when you will literally need their votes many times.

submitted 77 days ago • 25 comments

Once again, the absolutely stupidest possible way to run the most important economy on the planet.

submitted 77 days ago • 24 comments

Government shutdowns (and then, reopenings) are expensive for taxpayers. You'd think the head of the new govt efficiency commission would know this

submitted 77 days ago • 274 comments

He did promise some pain for regular folks under Trump.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Trump has promised policies every halfway sane economist assures us will be inflationary - today the Fed announced that it will proceed with caution in cutting rates as it waits to see how it goes with inflation and today the stock market got real about the death of Bidenomics

submitted 77 days ago • 9 comments

Scoop: The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg is trying to recruit some of The Washington Post's top talent to his magazine as the Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper struggles under reviled publisher Will Lewis, who has pushed newsroom morale into the toilet. Details in Status: www.status.news/p/washington...

submitted 78 days ago • 22 comments

29 House Republicans want Trump to scrap the IRS's free direct tax-filing tool on day one of his presidency, harming low income Americans www.businessinsider.com/republicans-...

submitted 81 days ago • 8 comments

🤫 shhh don’t tell DOGE that Rob, we need them to occupy themselves with their fanciful thoughts as long as possible.

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

What’s happening in NC should be much bigger scandal: gerrymandered GOP legislature stripping power from Dem gov & AG in lame-duck session while Rs trying to throw out 60k votes to overturn Dem victory in state Supreme Court race www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 84 days ago • 109 comments

The Trump transition and its advisors are considering eliminating deposit insurance and gutting the CFPB. Much of this won’t happen, but we are definitely going to be in for some truly dangerous Wall Street deregulation. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

We really should be thinking about how #crypto is going to lead to ruin, especially with Trump-appointed de-regulators removing the guardrails The creepiest part is about how crypto is getting entangled with the traditional banking system. I cover the 2008 financial crisis. No need to repeat that!

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

NCRC CEO @jessevantol.bsky.social is speaking today at the Native CDFI Network’s 5th Annual Policy & Capacity Building Summit in Washington, DC! #Leadership #Policy #NativeCDFI #JustEconomy

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

so much exciting bipartisan momentum on this important tax bill to help subsidize repairing and updating our nation’s most affordable #housing stock! @consumerfed.bsky.social is a supporter among many more advocacy organizations— we look forward to getting this done in 2025 ✅🏡

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments