Trump's Aggressive Deregulation Will Set Us Back Decades

Trump’s Bid To Take Us Back To 2008

Steering the country toward another potential financial crisis, the Trump administration has moved to completely gut the federal regulatory agency tasked with reining in the very financial institutions currently making the president’s allies rich.The president’s attacks on the government’s financial regulator are a stunning about-face from 2016, when Trump first campaigned on reinstating tough banking regulations.The Consumer Financial Protectio…

Trump's Aggressive Deregulation Will Set Us Back Decades

Trump and DOGE are disassembling many parts of the regulatory state that protected Americans from companies' predatory practices.