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AFR in the News: House Republicans Move to Gut Bank Regulations (NY Times)

“Progressive groups argued that the push to unravel Dodd-Frank was at odds with Mr. Trump’s populist campaign message that the economy was rigged in favor of corporate interests. ‘It is an enormous package of gifts for Wall Street and the worst actors in finance,” said Lisa Donner, executive director of Americans for Financial Reform, who said the bill House Republicans passed would increase the likelihood of another financial crisis.’ The banking industry’s top lobbyist, Rob Nichols, president of the American Bankers Association, cheered the committee’s vote.”

AFR in the News: Next On the House Republican Chopping Block: Post-Crisis Bank Regulations (Huffington Post)

“‘The [House Financial Services] committee has passed a bill that would give Wall Street and assorted predatory lenders a free hand to abuse consumers, and investors, and would increase the likelihood of another financial crisis,’ said Lisa Donner, executive director of the group Americans for Financial Reform. ‘It is an enormous package of gifts for Wall Street and the worst actors in finance.’”

AFR in the News: Demanding transparency and fairness from Trump tax plan (The Hill)

“What Americans want and will continue to demand is, of course, the exact opposite of what Trump’s tax plan represents. They want to see the loopholes closed and Wall Street paying more, not less. Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Keith Ellison have proposed a sales tax on Wall Street transactions; that would be a good start. Working families pay taxes when they buy a car or a pair of shoes.”

AFR in the News: How Consumer Financial Protections Could Be Rolled Back (Consumer Reports)

“‘The level of venom directed at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency that is successfully carrying out its mission of preventing tricks and traps that harm American families, is astounding,’ said Lisa Donner, executive director of Americans for Financial Reform, a nonpartisan and nonprofit coalition of consumer and other citizen groups. ‘The changes proposed by the legislation only make sense if you want to weaken consumer protections and make it easier for Wall Street, and predatory lenders, to profit by cheating people.’”

Alexis Goldstein appears on CNN with Brooke Baldwin appear on CNN (screen grab)

AFR in the News: Trump’s Tax Plan Slashes Taxes for Big Banks, is a Disaster for American workers (CNN)

AFR’s Senior Policy Analyst Alexis Goldstein appeared on CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin on Wednesday, April 26th to discuss how the Trump Administration’s tax plan would benefit Wall Street and leave ordinary American workers behind. “We have two former bankers from Goldman Sachs announcing a tax plan that–from the details that we do know–will dramatically cut taxes for big banks like Goldman Sachs,” Goldstein said.

AFR IN THE NEWS: Legislation Could Follow Executive Order on Failing Bank Provision (Morning Consult)

“’If the government doesn’t have the powers it needs to liquidate and wind down a failing mega-bank, we will just see banks holding up the taxpayer again during the next crisis,’ Marcus Stanley, policy director at Americans for Financial Reform, said in a statement Friday.”

AFR in the News: Trump Vows to Unveil Tax Plan (NY Times)

“As business groups cheered [deregulation] moves, some skeptics were left questioning whether Mr. Trump was keeping his campaign promises to give working-class Americans a higher priority than Wall Street bankers. ‘From our perspective, it is a direction that is dramatically backwards on financial stability,’ said Lisa Donner, executive director of Americans for Financial Reform.’”

AFR in the News: GOP plan to erase Wall Street rules is more generous than even banks asked for (Washington Post)

“Democrats have already promised to fight attempts to weaken the [CFPB’s] powers. ‘We would have a muzzled watchdog at best,’ said Brian Simmonds Marshall, policy counsel for Americans for Financial Reform, a coalition of more than 200 civil rights, consumer- and labor-oriented community groups. ‘You would have an agency that did not have the authorities it needs to protect consumers.’”

AFR in the News: Fighting Financial Abuse in the Trump Era (Huffington Post)

“Amanda Jackson, who takes on powerful financial industry forces every day as the Organizing Manager for Americans for Financial Reform, says she’s drawing strength and inspiration from a surge of activism. ‘Trump is forcing people to be more conscious of problems that certain communities have been facing forever,’ Jackson told Inequality.org. ‘There’s no gray area anymore. Either you turn a blind eye to the problems or you answer the call to action. Fortunately, we’re seeing many people answer that call.’”

AFR in the News: Revised GOP bill would destroy the Consumer Bureau (LA Times)

“The Texas Republican shared a memo with other lawmakers last week outlining changes he plans to make to his so-called Financial CHOICE Act… Impressively, he’s managed to make a bad bill even worse… Marcus Stanley, policy director for the advocacy group Americans for Financial Reform, said Hensarling’s revised bill ‘makes regulators even weaker than they were before the financial crisis…’ Score that a big win for financial firms after years of filling Hensarling’s pockets with money.”