In his report, ol’ Mick—who requested zero funds for the agency for the second quarter—wrote that “the bureau is far too powerful, and with precious little oversight of its activities.”

Obviously, you can see where his vision could take the C.F.P.B. under, say, a Republican-controlled Congress and an executive branch led by a guy who signed an order to roll back Dodd-Frank because his “friends” with “nice businesses” supposedly couldn’t borrow money, and who is deeply proud of his administration’s TGI Fridays-esque “2-for-1” deal wherein for each new regulation proposed, two must be scrapped. (The former point, shockingly, is utter bulls--t: since 2010, commercial and industrial bank loans have increased by 77 percent.) During his 14 months in office, Donald Trump has embarked on a deregulatory bonanza, typically claiming the rollbacks are necessary to spur economic growth—none of which, you’ll be deeply surprised to hear, have actually materialized. And last November, the president tweeted that the C.F.P.B. was a “total disaster” that had “devastated” financial institutions. Which, clearly, bodes incredibly well for the American consumer.

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Guy who just launched a trade war still having a tough time remembering the difference between a surplus and a deficit

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Rat-bastard Democrats throw a wrench in Trump’s plan to have the military pay for his wall

Last week, having realized that his southern border wall probably wouldn’t be funded by Mexico or “pay for itself,” bone spur victim and 45th president Donald Trump tweeted his desire to have the troops pay for the thing. So it’s really extremely rude that “obstructionist” Democrats are trying to claim such an arrangement is not actually legal: