Trump administration seeks more power to fire independent regulators
A letter to Congress signals that President Donald Trump seeks to make it easier to purge federal workers and exert maximum ...
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Bankers want agency independence, but split on consolidation
A survey of senior bank officers at community banks by fintech firm IntraFi found bankers nearly evenly divided on the idea ...
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Trump admin tees up legal fight over FERC leadership
In a Wednesday letter to Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), acting Solicitor General Sarah ...
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In Defense of Oversight – The President and the PCLOB
President Trump fired the Democratically (big D) appointed members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), an independent watchdog entity designed to provide input and oversight to ...
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Trump removes Democratic FEC commissioner ‘effective immediately’
President Trump dismissed Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen Weintraub from service on Friday following in his series of ...