The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all its work, effectively shutting down the agency that was created to protect consumers after the 2008 financial crisis and subprime mortgage-lending scandal.
get fucked, asswipe.
an act of congress created the agency. it needs an act of congress to eliminate it.
lol welp. We’re seeing exactly how much that “rule” is worth right now. And unfortunately, it’s demonstrably worth less than the paper it’s written on.
This is a constitutional crisis, and a coup as well; it’s just that neither Congress or the SC is going to lift a fucking finger to do anything about it. Which is par for the course, if I’m honest.
Michael “Up Trump’s Ass” Johnson: “Well you see it’s not our job to question the president”
It takes an act of Congress to eliminate it, but apparently a rogue President can make them sit on their hands and be useless.
I was gonna say, if it was going to be this simple there’s no way the CFPB would have survived Trump’s first term.
What can congress even do to stop him? Let’s say they even impeached and convicted him, who would have the courage and power to remove him from office at this point? It’s a pretty fucked up situation.
They can do a lot. Do you remember the last twenty years under Democrat presidents? Republicans obstructed tons of things successfully, even when they were in the minority.
It’s a question of planning and willpower. Of course there are no perfect solutions, so don’t ask for those.
Well, yeah, but Democratic leadership is going to be too concerned about moving towards the center to pick up non-existent swing voters. They don’t want to be tOo diViSiVE (heavens forbid).
Awww you think law is relevant to Trump
sigh