AFR@RealBankReform

Americans for Financial Reform is a coalition of over 200 organizations campaigning for real reform and consumer protections in our banking & financial systems.

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Over and over again, private equity has gutted one industry after another — and walked away richer. Our Stop Wall Street Looting Act would fight back.
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The Stop Wall Street Looting Act of 2026 (#SWSLA) would curb Wall Street's predatory practices and help build an economy that works for everyone.
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The bill also closes tax loopholes that currently incentivize loading companies with unsustainable debt and that allow billionaire executives to pay lower tax rates than teachers, nurses, and firefighters. #SWSLA buff.ly/wUA6r7F

Tell Congress: Pass the Stop Wall Street Looting Act Now!

Private equity firms have been treating our economy like their personal piggy bank for far too long. They buy up companies, saddle them with debt, strip them of assets, and then walk away with...

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Crucially, the new bill extends liability to private equity firms for labor violations at companies they control. It also supports increasing transparency and oversight of private equity activities, shedding light on an industry that has operated in the shadows for far too long.
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The watered down greenhouse gas emissions standard the California Air Resources Board is considering proposing would fail to require major polluting industries, like oil and gas firms and financial companies, to disclose most emissions. More in our report: buff.ly/xFjQoA6
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15 years ago #OccupyWallStreet changed the conversation about wealth and power and class not just in the United States, but around the world. Since then, the gap between the world's richest 1% and the rest of us has only grown wider. buff.ly/BZKzzl7

Fifteen Years Later, Revisiting the Promise and Limits of Occupy Wall Street | WNYC

Fifteen years after Occupy Wall Street began in Zuccotti Park, NYC Now returns to WNYC’s archives to ask what the movement changed, where it fell short and what remains today.

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When the cost of everything is skyrocketing & people are turning to debt to afford groceries, rent, & everyday necessities, members of Congress want to give financial companies a handout. @USHouseFSC @FinancialCmte must vote NO on #HR10184! @RealBankReform afrnews.substack.com/p/with-…
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Congress must act to prevent further erosion of the CFPB’s authority and ability to continue to #ProtectConsumers. Reject #HR10184, the so-called Consumer Financial Protection Accountability and Reform Act. @RealBankReform afrnews.substack.com/p/with-…
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.@HouseGOP are using the few legislative days before the midterms focused not on pressing affordability issues, but on yet again attacking the #CFPB.🙄 🎬 @RepSylviaGarcia enters our opposition letter with allies into the record 🙏 More on Substack ⬇️ buff.ly/flWHVzt
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Dozens of consumer, labor, community, and civil rights groups joined us in calling on the House Financial Services Committee to oppose H.R. 10184, the so-called Consumer Financial Protection Accountability and Reform Act of 2026. buff.ly/bixKa8k

Letters to Congress: Coalition Condemns Legislation Attacking CFPB - Americans for Financial Reform

Dozens of consumer, labor, community, and civil rights groups sent a letter to the House Financial Services Committee opposing H.R. 10184, the so-called Consumer Financial Protection Accountability...

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If enacted, H.R. 10184 would severely limit the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s ability to hold big banks and tech companies accountable and to protect people from unfair, predatory, and discriminatory financial practices. 🎬@RepBillFoster
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"The filibuster of the CLARITY Act marks a victory for people across the country and a defeat for crypto oligarchs." - Mark Hays, AFR and Demand Progress Action’s Associate Director of Cryptocurrency and Financial Technology Full Statement: ourfinancialsecurity.org/new…

Statement: AFR Commends Senators’ Rejection of CLARITY, the Billionaire-Backed Giveaway to the...

Today all voting Democrats and several Republicans stood up for the public interest and rejected the deeply flawed crypto bill that would have exposed our entire financial system, and all of us, to...

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The crypto industry’s so-called CLARITY Act was just voted down in the Senate! 🎉 This is a big win.
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"The Senate on Tuesday voted to block the Clarity Act from advancing, dealing a major blow to the crypto industry’s push for a comprehensive market structure framework." cnbc.com/2026/09/15/senate-c…
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Enmeshing crypto in traditional finance while exempting it from adequate protections will lead to disaster. Between CLARITY, AI, private markets, consumer protection rollbacks and banking deregulation, it's like they are brainstorming ways to cause another financial crash.
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"While Donald Trump is raising costs for working people, Trump is also using the presidency to make himself richer. And he's added crypto to his ways to cash in." -@SenWarren
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"This bill poses a massive risk to families, to our economy, and to our national security. We need crypto legislation that stops political self-dealing...but this bill would turbocharge Donald Trump's unprecedented corruption." -@SenWarren
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