Reports

Megabanks Raked in Billions in Overdraft Revenue as the CFPB Unveils Fee Crackdown

Economic Security and Corporate Power
January 9, 2024

Today, government watchdog Accountable.US released new analysis detailing the excessive profits banks have collected through overdraft and nonsufficient funds fees (NSF), and ongoing efforts from the financial industry to combat the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s cost-lowering junk fee initiatives.

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REPORT: Predatory Lenders Rewarded Congress Members Who Endorsed CFPB-Gutting Lawsuit With Over $82K

Economic Security and Corporate Power
November 7, 2023

The U.S. Supreme Court is currently deciding the fate of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s independence following a lawsuit brought by the predatory payday loan industry with an ax to grind against the agency that stands up for consumers and is not for sale to corporations.

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REPORT: Right-Wing Think Tank Uses Moore v. US To Push Corporate Backers’ Anti-Tax Agenda

Power & Influence
October 23, 2023

Accountable.US today released a new report, first covered in Politico, revealing that right-wing think tank Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) — the key group behind the upcoming Supreme Court case Moore v. US — is driving the pending lawsuit to push its corporate funders’ anti-tax agenda.

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MAGA Majority’s Debt Hypocrisy On Full Display While Threatening Costly Shutdown

Economic Security and Corporate Power
September 19, 2023

In the latest MAGA Majority political stunt, the Republican-led Committee on Oversight and Accountability is holding a hearing today to distract from their own debt-ballooning trickle-down policies that failed to create jobs — including the Bush and Trump-era tax breaks skewed towards big corporations and the richest 1% that grew the national debt

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Climate Deniers and Partisan Political Operatives Drive Opposition to Biden Oil and Gas Reforms

September 19, 2023

President Biden recently proposed changes to the oil and gas program at the Department of Interior, which had been charging royalties at a rate that had was first set in the 1920s. The package of reforms also improves bonding requirements to ensure that taxpayers aren’t left footing the bill when oil and gas companies leave messes on public lands.

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Report: Billionaire That Gifted Justice Alito Luxury Trip Holds At Least $90M in Financial Companies Overseen by CFPB

Economic Security and Corporate Power
September 16, 2023

Following reports that Justice Samuel Alito failed to disclose a luxury Alaska fishing trip gifted by right-wing billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer, a new analysis from government watchdog Accountable.US shows Singer holds at least $90 million in financial companies overseen by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as the agency faces an

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Republican AGs Begged SCOTUS to Argue Against CFPB After Taking $7.7M From Financial Industry and CFPB Opponents

Economic Security and Corporate Power
September 15, 2023

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request by 27 Republican Attorneys General to “make their own challenge” to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s funding system – the latest attack in a long-running coordinated right-wing effort to defund, defang and dismantle the nation’s leading consumer advocate.

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CFPB Returned Over $240M to Harmed Consumers in 10 States Home to Lawmakers Beholden to Financial Industry

Economic Security and Corporate Power
August 11, 2023

A new report from government watchdog Accountable.US shows much stolen money was returned by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s ‘Civil Penalty Fund’ for consumers in 10 states who fell victim to fraudulent or predatory financial industry behavior. The states highlighted in the report — AZ, KY, MI, MO, NC, NY, PA, SC, TX, WI

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Biggest public lands drillers made $100 billion after cheating taxpayers

Energy and the Environment
August 7, 2023

In a new report from non-partisan government watchdog Accountable.US first reported in E&E today the biggest drillers of United States public lands are revealed for the first time. The report shows big, multinational oil corporations– some of the most profitable in the world– benefiting the most from a broken public lands leasing system.

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