{"id":1237568,"date":"2025-03-06T12:59:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T17:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237568"},"modified":"2025-03-06T12:59:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T17:59:48","slug":"trump-claims-cfpb-destroys-people-senators-say-killing-it-is-a-gift-to-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237568","title":{"rendered":"Trump claims CFPB \u201cdestroys\u201d people. Senators say killing it is a gift to Musk."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Wednesday, the Senate voted to block the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from monitoring digital payments companies for fraud and privacy concerns\u2014which Democratic lawmakers Elizabeth Warren and Adam Schiff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.banking.senate.gov\/newsroom\/minority\/as-elon-musk-tries-to-destroy-the-cfpb-warren-schiff-demand-answers-from-office-of-government-ethics-on-conflicts-of-interest\">said<\/a> gave Elon Musk\u00a0a &#8220;get out of jail free card.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The vote advanced a proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ricketts.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SIL25249.pdf\">joint resolution<\/a> to the House of Representatives that &#8220;disapproves&#8221; of a final rule Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consumerfinance.gov\/about-us\/newsroom\/cfpb-finalizes-rule-on-federal-oversight-of-popular-digital-payment-apps-to-protect-personal-data-reduce-fraud-and-stop-illegal-debanking\/\">introduced<\/a> last year that was supposed to bring consumer protection regulation of digital payments companies in line with traditional financial institutions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At that time, lawmakers were concerned about tech companies spying on consumers&#8217; transactions, preventing valid transaction disputes over incorrect or fraudulent money transfers, and other potential harms to consumers &#8220;when they lose access to their app without notice or when their ability to make or receive payments is disrupted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/03\/trump-killing-cfpb-slammed-as-get-out-of-jail-free-card-for-elon-musks-x-money\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/03\/trump-killing-cfpb-slammed-as-get-out-of-jail-free-card-for-elon-musks-x-money\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, the Senate voted to block the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from monitoring digital payments companies for fraud and privacy concerns\u2014which Democratic lawmakers Elizabeth Warren and Adam Schiff said gave Elon Musk\u00a0a &#8220;get out of jail free card.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237568\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}