The Trump administration's effort to abolish a key agency for community development financial institutions has triggered real bipartisan pushback from senior lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
But for several Republicans who count themselves among the CDFI industry’s top backers in the Senate, the reaction sounds more like a funeral dirge than a rallying cry.
“These are some of the things I think that were promised by Mr. Vought of OMB,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said. “He’s delivering on them in a pretty hard way.”
