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Vought moves to kill CFPB

In an email sent Monday, OMB Director Russ Vought told CFBP staff to stay home and stop working

Salon · Feb 10, 2025

California Teachers Make 6 Figures on Average. Now They Demand More.

Plus: Steel and aluminum tariffs, Venezuelan sanctions and deportations, and more...

Reason · Feb 10, 2025

"Debanking" dispute reaches Congress

Republicans held congressional hearings on crypto industry claims that traditional banks won't serve them

Salon · Feb 7, 2025

Have U.S. Long-Term Interest Rates Peaked?

U.S. long-term interest rates remain stubbornly high in February 2025. While the Fed continues to cut the short-term Fund Funds Rate, the U.S. 30-year Treasury bond futures remain not far from the most recent February 2023 low as they consolidate and search for direction.

Barchart · Feb 4, 2025

Progressive Democrats accuse Trump and Musk of ‘a plutocratic coup’

Lawmakers point to shutting of USAid and accessing federal payment system as markings of ‘constitutional crisis’

The Guardian - US · Feb 3, 2025

Democratic Senators 'Pull the Fire Alarm' on Elon Musk's Involvement in Trump Council: 'Most Corrupt Administration in Our History' "

Democratic Senators have issued warnings about the Department of Government Efficiency, headed by billionaire Elon Musk, after employees of the department attempted to access confidential computer systems at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Latin Times · Feb 3, 2025

Why Musk's access to the Treasury payment system is so dangerous

Critics sound the alarm after Musk and DOGE allies ‘given access’ to internal Treasury payment system

The Independent UK · Feb 3, 2025

Giving Elon Musk’s DOGE access to the Treasury payment system raises the risk of a U.S. debt default and global financial crisis, senator warns

The Treasury Department’s payment system has been likened to the government’s checkbook and makes $6 trillion in disbursements a year.

Fortune · Feb 3, 2025

Senators Raise Concerns Over Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'S Vaccine Ties

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. faces scrutiny over financial ties to vaccine litigation as nominee for HHS secretary. Senators express concerns over his history of...

Top News · Feb 3, 2025

Musk Takes Control Of US Treasury Payments Systems

Elon Musk's aides have taken control of the US Treasury Department's payments system -- which manages trillions of dollars of transactions each year -- sparking alarm among critics.

International Business Times · Feb 3, 2025