This week four House Financial Services Committee Republicans penned a hostile missive to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau criticizing a lawsuit the agency filed in January along with the New York Attorney General against a notorious predatory auto lender, Credit Acceptance Corporation (CAC).
The ongoing banking crisis has reportedly only emboldened House Republicans to force a debt default crisis and hold the economy hostage until they get deep spending cuts punishing working families and seniors.
Today, the Federal Reserve made the counterproductive and ill-advised decision to raise interest rates by 25 basis points despite the Fed’s own projections that higher rates will drive up the unemployment rate to 4.6 percent – costing at least 2 million Americans their jobs. Government watchdog Accountable.US released a new analysis showing that fu
Telecommunications giant AT&T’s failing track record on democracy issues took another turn for the worse today with reports its subsidiary company DirecTV has cut a deal with far-right-wing Newsmax Media to once again make the network available on its satellite-TV and streaming packages.
This week, it was revealed that an exclusive retreat hosted by the Leonard Leo-chaired Teneo Network provided a “private and confidential” environment for Florida governor Ron DeSantis to reveal opinions he had not felt comfortable sharing publicly prior. Teneo Network is part of Leo’s dark money network, receiving the bulk of its
Bloomberg reports that Republican House Financial Services Chairman Patrick McHenry was thrown a high-dollar fundraiser by Signature Bank at their offices just 10 days before the bank’s collapse. The revelation comes as Chairman McHenry claims his committee will “get to the bottom” of the rash of recent failures of midsize banks which experts...
Today, Accountable.US released the following statement in response to reports that President Biden will designate two new national monuments today: Avi Kwa Ame in southern Nevada and Castner Rage in El Paso, Texas.
A new report from government watchdog Accountable.US found that Texas-based Fortune 500 companies and trade groups decreased their overall contributions to election objectors in Congress just 12% between the 2020 and 2022 election cycles.
A new report from government watchdog Accountable.US found that Michigan-based Fortune 500 companies and trade groups decreased their overall contributions to election objectors in Congress by 28.8% between the 2020 and 2022 election cycles — significantly more than the 9.9% decrease from corporations and trade groups across all states.
A new report from government watchdog Accountable.US found that Georgia-based Fortune 500 companies and trade groups decreased their overall contributions to election objectors in Congress by only 4.1% between the 2020 and 2022 election cycles, far less than the 9.9% decrease from corporations and trade groups across all states.
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