November 27, 2017

One block west of the White House, the Trump administration is currently engaged in a battle with federal officials resisting a Republican attempt to undermine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Meanwhile, a few blocks West on Pennsylvania avenue, the President is getting a helping hand from Democrats on Capitol Hill. Though the temporary appointment of Mick Mulvaney signals doom for the CFPB (the top White House economic aide has described the watchdog agency as “a sick, sad joke”), legislation, with liberal support, could do much…

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Medical providers that offered suboptimal care and, sometimes, abuse to veterans were often never reported to agencies charged with overseeing their practices. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued an audit of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) on Monday, revealing procedural failures that allowed health care practitioners to continue seeing patients, despite being accused of serious wrongdoing. Concluding that veterans may be “at increased risk of receiving unsafe care,” the report calls into question the management of the nearly 40,000 doctors and nurses that staff Department of…

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