Trump Is Right: Rogue Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Must Go

Almost immediately after the Senate named Russ Vought Office of Management and Budget director, President Donald Trump also named him the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a rogue agency with a long history of overreach and corruption. The agency has seen rampant internal racism and anti-woman bias, according to the General Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau hurts consumers by slapping unnecessary fines and regulations on lenders, making it harder for them to lend and…

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WATCH: MoveOn’s Rahna Epting Expands into Digital News Media

Watch Interviews with The Majority Report with Sam Seder HERE, Keith Edwards HERE, and Jack Cocchiarella HERE Email press@moveon.org for interview inquiries  WASHINGTON – MoveOn Executive Director Rahna Epting recently joined political commentator and YouTube hosts Keith Edwards and Jack Cocchiarella, and The Majority Report with Sam Seder.  In these conversations, Epting discusses how voters and MoveOn’s millions of members are demonstrating their outrage over President Trump and Republicans’ move to cut essential programs, increase costs and give billionaires tax breaks while giving unelected billionaire Elon Musk carte blanche to run our…

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White House moves to eliminate Federal Executive Institute

The Federal Executive Institute, a long-standing leadership development center for federal executives, is shutting down. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday directing the Office of Personnel Management to take all necessary steps to abolish the FEI. “Per POTUS’s order, the Federal Executive Institute will be closed. It’s time the federal workforce worked for America’s taxpayers!” OPM said on social media platform X. The institute opened its doors in 1968 — President Lyndon B. Johnson created it as a senior staff college within the federal government to support…

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Trump Says the Corrupt Part Out Loud

Amid the flurry of changes to the face of American government—the president may or may not have the right to unilaterally eliminate agencies; engaging in insurrection has been decriminalized while prosecuting it has become grounds for termination; wars of conquest are now on the table—you could be forgiven for missing the news that bribery is basically legal now, as long as you support, or are, Donald Trump. Consider the Trump administration’s actions yesterday alone: The president officially pardoned Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor who served eight years in prison…

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Not Enough People Were ‘Marginalized,’ So Obama Created DEI

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I want to talk today about the controversy over diversity, equity, and inclusion, but in a little different strain. I want to compare it with affirmative action. Affirmative action was created during the civil rights era, 1964 and ’65, and then, now, it has been with us almost 60 years. But…

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