Trump Gives Budget Director More Time To Eliminate CFPB
From today’s Reuters: The White House has nominated a director to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a legal maneuver that buys Acting Director Russell Vought more time to close…
How Existing Consumer Rights Laws Apply to AI Chatbots for Kids and Teens
From today’s Electronic Privacy Information Center: Nearly three in four teens report using AI chatbots, and about one in three teen users of AI chatbot report feeling uncomfortable with something…
Airlines Lobby To Roll Back Consumer Protection Regulations
From today’s Yahoo!News: Airlines for America, the trade group representing the nation’s largest carriers, has submitted a 93-page petition to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) requesting the rollback of…
Trump Ditches Biden Rule For Airlines To Compensate Passengers For Flight Delays
From today’s NBC News: The Trump administration said Thursday it is abandoning a Biden-era plan that sought to require airlines to compensate stranded passengers with cash, lodging and meals for…
Trump’s Cuts To Consumer Protection Have Cost Americans $18 Billion
From today’s Honolulu Star-Advertiser: President Donald Trump’s rapid pullback of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has cost Americans at least $18 billion in higher fees and lost compensation for consumers…
Left for Dead, the C.F.P.B. Inches Back to Life
From today’s New York Times: At the headquarters of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, faint shadows above the entrance are all that remain of the letters that once spelled the…
Southwest To Charge for Checked Bags, Ending Popular Policy
From today’s New York Times: Southwest Airlines on Tuesday said it would start charging for checked bags, ending another longtime policy that had set it apart from other airlines as…
Americans’ Personal Data In Danger As Musk Takes Over Government
From today’s New York Times: Last week, Michelle King, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, sought to reassure Democrats on Capitol Hill about the presence of two of…
With Mass Layoffs Expected, Judge May Block Dismantling of Consumer Watchdog Agency
From today’s ABC News: After the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) fired its probationary workers as part of the Trump administration’s government-wide layoffs Thursday, the agency moved on to fire…
I Work at the FTC. I Know What Is Killing Local Groceries.
From today’s New York Times: Swaths of America have been hollowed out. Some people look at boarded-up shops in small towns and some urban centers and think: They just couldn’t…