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While the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been pushing to lower these fees in recent years, with some success, that seems likely to end with the Trump administration’s move to defang that agency.
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Dylan Matthews, Vox, 5 Mar. 2025
Consumer watchdogs:Consumer Financial Protection Bureau payouts in limbo as agency defanged by Trump
The prior policy, adopted in 2024, would have subjected larger banks pursuing mergers to much stricter oversight.
—Pete Schroeder, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
This is very classy and straightforward and rather dull and defanged.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
Within a few years, the Kremlin had dismantled or defanged them all.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2025
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Dylan Matthews, Vox, 5 Mar. 2025
Consumer watchdogs:Consumer Financial Protection Bureau payouts in limbo as agency defanged by Trump
The prior policy, adopted in 2024, would have subjected larger banks pursuing mergers to much stricter oversight.
—Pete Schroeder, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
This is very classy and straightforward and rather dull and defanged.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
Within a few years, the Kremlin had dismantled or defanged them all.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2025
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“Defang.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/defang. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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