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The spending cut fight follows GOP moderates home
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House GOP gets a win on budget plan, but what's next?
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Hern talks reconciliation challenges, tax priorities
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CFPB asks industry to snitch on agency employees
This is a bitter reversal of one of the CFPB’s most prominent functions: reviewing complaints from consumers and industry whistleblowers.
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Bankers sit down for ‘frank’ talk with Senate GOP
Lawmakers were tight-lipped coming out of the meeting. One person present described the conversation as “constructive.”
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Jay Powell doesn’t love the Fed’s top regulatory job
The chair of the Federal Reserve expressed some reservations today about having a role dedicated to developing bank regulation.
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The bank lobby is being awfully quiet about CFPB
The federal consumer watchdog agency is now several days into a profound legal crisis and internal turmoil, leaving much of the industry it regulates in the lurch.
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Finance targets health offset for Graham’s reconciliation bill
Finance’s much bigger task is producing a tax bill before many of the 2017 Trump tax cuts expire at the end of the year.
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Judiciary Republicans shrug off Patel concerns
Durbin added that if proven true, the allegations would mean Patel committed perjury during his Judiciary Committee hearing.
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DOGE launches on a tame note. For now.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene made her highly-anticipated debut leading the DOGE subcommittee this morning, but the overall mood was pretty tame.
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Slater says she’ll weigh costs of Big Tech antitrust cases
Trump made clear when he selected Slater that he wanted her to continue the push against Big Tech and protect smaller companies.
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Jay Powell doesn’t love the Fed’s top regulatory job
The chair of the Federal Reserve expressed some reservations today about having a role dedicated to developing bank regulation.
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