In an overnight vote, the Senate confirmed Tom Price to be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services despite ethics issues regarding lucrative stock purchases of companies his legislation would directly impact. Price's primary role at HHS is expected to be overseeing the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and rollbacks to medicare and medicaid. His past opposition to federal health care programs of all varieties appears to have been his primary positive attribute to Republicans in Congress and at the White House.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, born out of the financial crisis and intending to help even out the information gap between consumers and corporations, is under fire by the House Financial Services Committee led by Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX). According to a memo obtained by the Washington Post: 

A Republican plan to dismantle Wall Street regulations would strip the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau of many of its powers, including eliminating its consumer complaint database and scaling back its enforcement abilities...