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Elizabeth Warren

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Elizabeth Ann Warren is an American attorney, academic, and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Massachusetts since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been a prominent advocate for consumer protection, economic equality, and corporate regulation. Warren gained national recognition for her work in establishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and has focused on issues such as student debt relief and healthcare reform during her tenure in the Senate.

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Feb 17, 2025

Presidents are not kings. And we are not powerless.

newsweek.com
Feb 16, 2025

Software engineers working for Musk seeking to gain access to tax return information have no right to hoover up taxpayer data and send that data back to any other part of the federal government and may be breaking the law if they are doing…

commondreams.org
Feb 16, 2025

Any delay in refunds could be financially devastating to millions of Americans who plan their budgets around timely refunds every spring.

commondreams.org
Feb 16, 2025

Violations of these taxpayer privacy laws, including unauthorized access to or disclosure of tax returns and return information, can result in criminal penalties, including incarceration.

commondreams.org
Feb 16, 2025

These prohibitions have long prevented political appointees in previous administrations from accessing the private tax records of hundreds of millions of Americans.

commondreams.org
Feb 16, 2025

DOGE's meddling with IRS systems in the middle of tax filing season could, inadvertently or otherwise, cause breakdowns that may delay the issuance of tax refunds indefinitely.

commondreams.org
Feb 16, 2025

There are serious statutory and regulatory restrictions on when employees outside the Treasury Department may gain access to tax return information.

cbsnews.com
Feb 16, 2025

Donald Trump fired the people who make sure you and your parents get the healthcare you need.

commondreams.org
Feb 14, 2025

A judge just blocked Elon Musk and co-president Donald Trump from firing the financial cops at the CFPB who protect consumers from Wall Street scams.

commondreams.org
Feb 13, 2025

If we have suddenly decided that diversity is not a core value of our country, there is a fundamental misunderstanding of what the American project is.

motherjones.com
Feb 13, 2025

Those are folks who otherwise would be making discoveries that could benefit the public good.

motherjones.com
Feb 13, 2025

If we don’t study these things, it becomes a lot harder to make coherent policy arguments for why we need to address societal problems.

motherjones.com
Feb 13, 2025

We are very much at risk of losing an entire generation of researchers, and that will negatively affect us for generations.

motherjones.com
Feb 13, 2025

A judge just blocked Elon Musk and co-president Donald Trump from firing the financial cops at the CFPB who protect consumers from Wall Street scams. There's power in fighting back.

newsweek.com
Feb 12, 2025

We should focus on the most fundamental harms—and ignore the freak show that Trump is putting on.

thenation.com
Feb 12, 2025

It is dangerously unacceptable that an unelected Musk and his unqualified acolytes have access to sensitive CMS systems.

commondreams.org
Feb 12, 2025

Every cut risks Americans paying more, waiting longer, and wading through more insurance red tape for care.

commondreams.org
Feb 12, 2025

Medicare and Medicaid must not be raided to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

commondreams.org
Feb 12, 2025

Make no mistake: This GOP plan will raise the cost that American families pay for groceries, healthcare, and getting an education.

commondreams.org
Feb 12, 2025

Republicans are pulling a fast one on working people by reaching into their pockets to pay for billionaire handouts.

commondreams.org
Feb 12, 2025

For every American who doesn’t want some weird Elon Musk suck-up searching through your personal private data, this is your fight.

vox.com
Feb 12, 2025

We should not see their power just through the lens of how it has traditionally been used.

thenation.com
Feb 11, 2025

The thing that stands in his way is having strong regulators who will make him play by the same rules as every other bank.

democracynow.org
Feb 11, 2025

Elon has a plan for a new payment platform called xMoney.

democracynow.org
Feb 11, 2025

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned over $21 billion to families cheated by Wall Street.

cnn.com

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