Claire Williams covers banking policy matters on Capitol Hill. She previously wrote about financial and economic policy for Morning Consult and earlier had stints at S&P Global and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
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Rapid deregulation, tariffs and a campaign to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have defined the early days of President Donald Trump's second term for bankers.
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The bureau dropped the case against the subprime card lender with prejudice, following a number of similar actions taken under the Trump administration.
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Sen. Dick Durbin, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, announced he will not seek reelection in 2026, concluding more than four decades in Congress. The Illinois lawmaker leaves behind a notable imprint on U.S. financial policy, particularly regarding swipe fees.
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House Financial Services Committee ranking member Maxine Waters, D-Calif., led a group of Democrats in challenging Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent over the current state of the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is laying off more than 1,400 employees just days after a panel of judges said the bureau couldn't fire employees without an assessment of whether the workers are unnecessary to perform the bureau's legally mandated duties.
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The firing of National Credit Union Administration board members further erodes the political independence of bank regulators, experts say, in a way that could trickle up to the Federal Reserve.
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President Donald Trump has ousted Todd Harper and Tanya Otsuka, Democratic board members of the National Credit Union Administration, before the end of their Senate-confirmed terms in the latest example of bipartisan regulator boards being undermined in Washington.
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A bill being introduced by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., would compel the Federal Home Loan Bank System to contribute 30%, or a minimum of $200 million, of each bank's net earnings into affordable housing or other community development programs.
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Federal Reserve Gov. Michelle Bowman, who has been nominated to be the central bank's top regulator, sidestepped direct questions about the Trump administration's incursion into the Fed's regulatory independence.
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Federal Reserve Gov. Michelle Bowman will go before the Senate Banking Committee Thursday for her confirmation hearing to be the next vice chair for supervision at the central bank.
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