Posted on 11/23/2016 5:28:42 AM PST by pabianice
Controversial agency is most partisan
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the most partisan agency in the federal government in terms of donations to candidates, according to campaign finance data.
Employees at the CFPB, which was created by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, contributed nearly $50,000 during the 2016 campaign with all of that money going to aid Hillary Clinton or her rival, the insurgent socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., VT). Agency employees made more than 300 donations during the campaign. Not one went to a Republican candidate.
Rep. Sean Duffy (R., Wis.), a frequent critic of the agency, said that it is no surprise that the agency would contribute to the Democratic campaign. Republicans have tried to reduce the scope of the bureau’s broad regulatory power since Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.), one of the most liberal lawmakers in the country, oversaw its creation.
“CFPB employees fell over each other to give money to Hillary because she supported CFPB’s desire to remain in the shadows and unaccountable to the American people,” Duffy said. “No one is shocked that Washington bureaucrats would donate to the candidate who promised to maintain and expand onerous Dodd-Frank regulations that crush our community banks and local credit unions.”
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Shut it down completely. Delete from the legislation!
It’s gone!!!
And what the hell are people who work for the government doing donating to the kind of government they want?!?!
The official GOP position is to shut it down.
Hence I would not expect very many of them to donate money to the cause of making themselves jobless.
Occam’s razor.
Not a surprise.
The DC voting district went 94% for Hillary!.
This is Fauxcahotas Warren’s baby. Shut it down, Pres. Trump, and throw Dodd-Frank in the shredder.
“Shut it down completely. Delete from the legislation”
Partisan agency and they cannot refute it. Shut them down.
Part of the swamp. Trump should consider the necessity of having such agencies, as their creation is politically inspired.
Get rid of this bureaucratic nightmare. Yesterday!
Bet on it.
Even ignoring how partisan it is, CPFB should be eliminated. That organization is far outside the proper scope of FedGov responsibilities and needs to disappear. I’d consider two weeks notice for everyone who works there appropriate, starting January 20, 2017.
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And what the hell are people who work for the government doing donating to the kind of government they want?!?!
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It should irk greater when People realize w/out their tax $$, these people\positions would not exist to be ‘paid’...IOW: taxpayers are funding their own demise.
I worked for a debt collections law firm for almost 10 years. The CFPB is nothing but a bully organization with zero accountability. Should be dismantled period.
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