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Who does this help? That's the question I find myself asking multiple times a day.
When Elon Musk and his cronies at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set their sights on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), I was dumbfounded.
How can they want to destroy an agency that has recovered over $20 Billion from banks and corporations engaged in predatory practices? Surely we can all agree that fraud is bad?
Read MoreIf you think back to the campaign trail, you'll recall that President Trump and his allies were adamant that they had no connection to Project 2025.
The authors? Never heard of them.
The policies? Not a single thought given to them.
This, as it turns out, was a complete lie (I know, I'm shocked!). In the weeks since the Inauguration, the Trump administration has hit the ground running with incredible speed: unleashing flurries of executive orders, regulatory changes, and staffing decisions to enact their anti-America agenda.
Read MoreOver the weekend, the Trump administration took yet another extraordinary and unprecedented step to undermine our government.
Unelected billionaire and noted Nazi enthusiast Elon Musk was given unfettered access to the Treasury Department's payment systems, allowing him and his cronies at the so-called "Department of Government Efficiency" (not even a real department) to access sensitive information, like Social Security numbers, of millions of Americans. This access also allows him to unilaterally stop payments for programs that he deems "wasteful."
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