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Congressional Republicans have fought unrelentingly for years to weaken the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, put into place under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. The purpose of the CFPB is to promote fairness and transparency for mortgages, credit cards, and other consumer financial products and services. The CFPB was created to provide a single point of accountability for enforcing federal consumer financial laws and protecting consumers in the financial marketplace.
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Scott Pruitt is in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency yet he would love nothing more than to erase it from existence. He's been attacking our environment and our future in hundreds of very meaningful ways. In this post, we describe the latest one.
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In our August 15, 2017 post linked HERE, we provided a primer that explained what DACA is and why it exists after President Obama's 2010 DREAM legislation was filibustered by Republicans in Senate to prevent a vote.
On Tuesday, September 5, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions shut down DACA. He provided lies about these people to justify the move, offered no details of how the program could be wound down, and took no questions (because he has no answers).
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Ben Carson was confirmed as secretary of Housing and Urban Development in March 2017. Carson has zero experience in housing policy, but has said that anyone who questions his qualifications are stupid. He actually said that.
Yet here we are and millions will suffer as a result. Carson ought to go back to wasting taxpayer dollars on office furniture. At least that damage was limited to a few hundred thousand dollars.
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The neo-conservative, alt-right, and Republican leaders pulling Trumps strings continue to achieve their goals without any publicity. It's seemingly "small" things like this that ruins the lives of human beings but happen under the radar and get lost in the deluge of awful news.
The U.S. immigration courts will temporarily halt a program that offers legal assistance to detained foreign nationals facing deportation....