Where is the Tea Party?

It’s OK for Republicans to increase the size of government along with its debt.

Where is the size of government increasing?

Defense spending.

The number of Bureau workers and Tzars seems to be shrinking, though.

Also, moves are being made towards more government efficiency.

Trump Moves to Ease the Firing of Federal Workers


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Mick Mulvaney fires all 25 members of consumer watchdog’s advisory board


Renae Merle June 6 Email the author
Mick Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, fired the agency’s 25-member advisory board Wednesday, days after some of its members criticized his leadership of the watchdog agency.

The CFPB said it will revamp the Consumer Advisory Board, known as the CAB, in the fall with all new members.

The panel has traditionally played an influential role in advising the CFPB’s leadership on new regulations and policies. But some members, who include prominent consumer advocates, academics and industry executives, began to complain that Mulvaney was ignoring them and making unwise decisions about the agency’s future.

On Monday, 11 CAB members held a news conference and criticized Mulvaney for, among other things, canceling legally required meetings with the group.

On Wednesday, group members were notified that they were being replaced — and that they could not reapply for spots on the new board.

In a statement, the agency’s spokesman, John Czwartacki, took a final swipe at the group. “The outspoken members of the Consumer Advisory Board seem more concerned about protecting their taxpayer funded junkets to Washington, D.C., and being wined and dined by the Bureau than protecting consumers,” he said.

Revamping the board is part of the CFPB’s new approach to reaching out to stakeholders to “increase high quality feedback,” the bureau said in an email to the group. The CFPB will hold more town halls and roundtable discussions, the letter said, and the new CAB will have fewer members.

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The battle for control of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The White House and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are at odds over who should lead the watchdog agency, and what its role should be. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)

But the dismissal of the members is likely to exacerbate concerns among Democrats that Mulvaney is weakening the consumer watchdog.

“Mick Mulvaney has no intention of putting consumers above financial firms that cheat them. This is what happens when you put someone in charge of an agency they think shouldn’t exist,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who helped conceive of the bureau, said in a statement.

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said: “Mulvaney has proven once again he would rather cozy up with payday lenders and industry insiders than listen to consumer advocates who want to make sure hard-working Americans are not cheated by financial scams.”

As a congressman, Mulvaney repeatedly criticized the agency, calling it a “joke” and saying it needed to be reined in. Since being appointed acting director by President Trump in November, Mulvaney has launched a top-to-bottom review of the bureau’s operations, stripped enforcement powers from a CFPB unit responsible for pursuing discrimination cases and proposed that lawmakers curb the agency’s powers.

Last week, Mulvaney sided with payday lenders who sued the CFPB to block implementation of new industry regulations. The CFPB filed a joint motion with the payday lenders asking the judge to delay the case until the bureau completes a review of the rules, which could take years.

“Firing current members of the advisory board is a huge red flag in this administration’s ongoing erosion of critical consumer financial protections that help average families,” said Chi Chi Wu, an attorney for the National Consumer Law Center who has been a board member since 2016.

The Consumer Advisory Board is required under the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial law. Members also included the head of retail banking at Citi, the founder of NerdWallet and a director at Texas Appleseed, a public interest law center. Members of two other boards — the Community Bank Advisory Council and the Credit Union Advisory Council — were also dismissed.

In a 30-minute call Wednesday morning to announce the move, a CFPB official sparred with some board members surprised by the decision. “We’ve decided we’re going to start the advisory groups with new membership, to bring in these new perspectives and new dialogue,” said Anthony Welcher, the CFPB’s policy associate director for external affairs, according to a recording of the call obtained by The Washington Post.

During the call, Welcher said revamping the CAB would save the agency “multi-hundred-thousand dollars a year” by not having its periodic meetings in Washington. But several board members objected, noting that they would be willing to pay their own way to attend the meetings.

“The new bureau leadership has never met with any of us to determine, and even have a sense of, whether this is valuable advice that the bureau is receiving,” said Josh Zinner, chief executive of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility."

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Republicans just added $1.5 trillion to debt and gave it to billionaires
Not a peep

They only activate when a black man becomes president. And at that moment they know without reservation that the world is about to end. So like the cicada they are in hiding until the next outbreak. Can they be anymore hypocritical?

2009 "The illegal Kenyan is going to bankrupt the country we must have a balanced budget NOW! Keep the government's hands off of my Medicare!"
2018 "Hey you know Trump and the Republicans have created in one year a $1.5 trillion dollar deficit which will quickly drive the debt towards $30 trillion dollars. And they now want to cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security to pay for the $1.5 trillion dollars which they gave to the wealthy!"........zzZZzzZzzzz....snore....zzzzZzZzzzz...zzzZ...white person now...zzzz...Hilary... @#$$#....zzz...gun..gun where's my gun....zzz..zz...

So you have an issue with White people advocating for the issues that affect White people? You have an issue with White people wanting a President that looks like them, talks like them, holds the same beliefs as them, and shares their history as well as traditions? Talk about hypocritical.
 
Republicans just added $1.5 trillion to debt and gave it to billionaires
Not a peep

They only activate when a black man becomes president. And at that moment they know without reservation that the world is about to end. So like the cicada they are in hiding until the next outbreak. Can they be anymore hypocritical?

2009 "The illegal Kenyan is going to bankrupt the country we must have a balanced budget NOW! Keep the government's hands off of my Medicare!"
2018 "Hey you know Trump and the Republicans have created in one year a $1.5 trillion dollar deficit which will quickly drive the debt towards $30 trillion dollars. And they now want to cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security to pay for the $1.5 trillion dollars which they gave to the wealthy!"........zzZZzzZzzzz....snore....zzzzZzZzzzz...zzzZ...white person now...zzzz...Hilary... @#$$#....zzz...gun..gun where's my gun....zzz..zz...

So you have an issue with White people advocating for the issues that affect White people? You have an issue with White people wanting a President that looks like them, talks like them, holds the same beliefs as them, and shares their history as well as traditions? Talk about hypocritical.

And when we finally get one then we won't have Rump anymore.
 
Republicans just added $1.5 trillion to debt and gave it to billionaires
Not a peep
The last thread started in the tea party forum was October 2021 and I’m not even sure it was about being a member of the party. This party is just a hypothetical branch of the Republican Party. Certainly didn’t catch on with Americans. Can we say the tea party is un american?
 
The last thread started in the tea party forum was October 2021 and I’m not even sure it was about being a member of the party. This party is just a hypothetical branch of the Republican Party. Certainly didn’t catch on with Americans. Can we say the tea party is un american?
The Tea Party is now MAGA

They stormed the Capitol
 
Defense spending.
Actually, Defense Spending tends to go down during Democrat Admins and up(recover) during Republican ones.

What does show consistent trend of spending increases are the many social programs. One can see such if they use the "time machine" function of this website to go back to 1980 and move forward to present to see the real trends.
 
WASHINGTON The United States spends more than other developed nations on its students' education each year, with parents and private foundations picking up more of the costs, an international survey released Tuesday found.

Despite the spending, U.S. students still trail their rivals on international tests. U.S. education spending tops global list, study shows
Obviously we need more spending....rrrigghttttt
That is because Public Schools teach crap.
 
Someone say "Tea Party"????

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Republicans just added $1.5 trillion to debt and gave it to billionaires
Not a peep
Now this is what I am talkin about. There is no such a thing as an honest government official or employee. From office supplies to selling out a country you black mailed out of millions to Russia. Every one of those government, low life, criminals ain't worth the dirt they are made of. The only way you can tell these slugs apart any more is the evil, stupidity, and the making of a good joke of the democRat party.
 
The tea party played its role. It made rural areas go crazy about scary brown people. Every single other issue they pretended to care about has been confirmed as nothing more than providing cover. Like when conservatives say the confederacy was really only about state’s rights.
Do you really think like that?
 

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