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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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REPORT: Profits & Investor Handouts Soar Among Top 5 Pharma Companies Amid Industry Price Hikes

Economic Security and Corporate Power
July 27, 2023

A new analysis from government watchdog Accountable.US found that the five largest U.S. pharmaceutical companies by market cap saw profits rise steadily from FY 2021 to FY 2022, as price increases and acquisitions of competing firms led to generous shareholder handouts at the expense of Americans struggling to afford life-saving medicine.

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Analysis: Financial Industry’s Rhetoric On Credit Card Junk Fees Distorts Costly Reality For Consumers

Economic Security and Corporate Power
July 27, 2023

Ahead of today’s Senate Banking subcommittee hearing on “Fees and Tactics Impacting Americans’ Wallets,” government watchdog Accountable.US released a new analysis dispelling top myths employed by the credit card industry to excuse hidden and excessive late fees – including claims that lowering these junk fees will somehow have adverse effects on b

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700,000 Reasons House Ways & Means Republicans Are Distorting Biden Global Corporate Tax Fairness Effort

Economic Security and Corporate Power
July 19, 2023

Today, the Republican-led House Ways and Means tax subcommittee will hold a hearing designed to distort the Biden administration’s executive guidance in support of a global minimum corporate tax rate of at least 15 percent and closing loopholes that let multinational corporations dodge responsibility by basing in tax haven countries.

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