Kathy Kraninger gutted the CFPB rule that attempts to stop payday lenders from trapping borrowers in cycles of debt. Shameful.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Wednesday proposed significantly weakening Obama-era rules governing payday lenders, boosting the fortunes of an industry accused of keeping low-income borrowers trapped in a cycle of debt.
Pollution is bad. When companies pollute, they face monetary penalties for doing so. If not for the penalties, they would have no reason to follow the rules. Simple concept.
But Trump's Environmental PROTECTION Agency has cut penalties drastically meaning these firms face zero consequences for ruining the one world we have.
Scott Pruitt is gone and now so is Ryan Zinke. That just means their headline news of corruption has ended but the destruction of our environment pushes ahead with full force, stronger than ever. We all must be aware of what the relatively scandal-free Andrew Wheeler is doing to elminate as many environmental protections as possible while running the Environmental PROTECTION Agency.
Another Swamp Alert for you all. This is becoming an unintentional series for Smart Dissent. There's just so many it's impossible to keep up but we try to share a few so here you go.
Trump crony, Tea Party leader, OMB Director, former-interim director of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Acting White House Chief of State.... Sounds like Mick Mulvaney is basically running our government and Trump's newest best friend. Back in August 2018, before adding Chief of State to his resume, you likely missed what good ole Mick was up to: harming our military men and women and their families.
It's the quiet things Trump and Republican "leadership" are doing without headlines, while no one is watching, that can be the most evil. That's what we try to post about here in addition to the major news. Here's one that I doubt any one of you reading this head about back in September 2018.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday [9/26/18] placed the head of its Office of Children’s Health Protection on administrative leave, an unusual move that appeared to reflect an effort to minimize the role of the office.
This in fact is the swamp that needs to be drained. When the richest people in this nation can pay off OUR Department of JUSTICE to get rules reversed, we see clear evidence of the swamp that corrupts all. For it to be the Justice Department is a new level of shock.
Adelson, who has poured millions into a multiyear lobbying campaign....to curb online gambling.... spent tens of millions in the 2016 election backing Trump and has emerged as one of the most powerful and influential donors in GOP politics.
As documented through Smart Dissent's Environment section, OUR EPA is being gutted. At first, the endless corruption of Scott Pruitt made headlines, potentially slowing down the destruction or at least giving it some attention. However, now the EPA is almost entirely out of the headlines while Andrew Wheeler guts environmental protections that save lives and our planet.
The gutting of the EPA is not just the regulations themselves; it's the people who are pushed out which will set us back in ways we cannot imagine.
The Trump administration, which has already rolled back Justice Department oversight of police departments and Education Department protections for transgender students, is targeting the principle of disparate impact in its latest effort to undermine civil rights enforcement. Let's explain what that means.
Trump campaigned to "Drain The Swamp" and people loved that concept. Heck, that's the basis for Senator Warren's largest legislative push in 2018 - end corruption...ie drain the swamp. Our citizens rightly want to end corruption and drain the swamp. Unfortunately for all of us, Trump was knowingly, entirely lying, and is doing the complete opposite. Also, about 40% of the country is too dumb to understand that.
Here's a prime example of precisely the swamp, the Republican Trump swamp.