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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon understood that no Vice Chair for Supervision could make Jerome Powell’s Fed take regulation seriously. Why didn’t Matt Yglesias?

On May 28th 2024, the Revolving Door Project sent a letter to the office of Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco expressing concern over her recently reported off-the-record meeting with senior tech company executives. The Revolving Door Project called on DAG Monaco to publicly disclose who she met with, what was discussed, and permanently discontinue holding private meetings that may sow public distrust of the Department of Justice.

On April 1, the Biden administration announced that it would move to cap rent hikes in Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) properties to 10%. The new regulations from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) are a historic step that will protect millions of tenants in LIHTC properties across the country from egregious rent hikes. Unsurprisingly, the real estate industry is none too pleased about this major new pro-tenant policy.    

The debt ceiling reprieve reached last year is quickly running its course. We need to start the work to keep it from derailing Democratic priorities again.

Since our last update on January 9, 2024, the rate of confirmations emerging from the Senate has (finally) picked up. While the majority of these confirmations involve nominees that have been pending for nearly nine months or more, their confirmations have put a sizable dent in the total number of expired seats and vacancies remaining across the independent agencies.

Don’t fall for Big Real Estate’s self-serving claims about “renter fraud”.

Our review of campaign finance data shows that Sheffield has personally spent more than $750,000 to shape energy policy in his favor at the federal and state levels.

Jeffrey Zients and Anita Dunn must start behaving like competent political operatives and lead the Biden Administration to condemn Scott Sheffield daily.

The FTC’s revelation of an oil price-fixing scheme by GOP donors and foreign powers places blame for economic pain where it belongs: on the profit-maximizing fossil fuel industry.

It’s certainly true that liberals can believe things that are actually incorrect, but the centrality of criticizing the left detracts from the core part of the argument.

Across the federal government, we continue to see how staffing issues are preventing agencies from fulfilling their mandate, at the expense of the public and to the benefit of corporate wrongdoers. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are 4 agencies that desperately need more funding and staffing to protect and do right by the American people.