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Byline: Tony Romm President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress are weighing vast changes to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, seeking to limit the powers and funding of a federal [...]

Byline: Tony Romm The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced on Thursday that it would subject the largest technology companies to regular inspections and other rigorous oversight, paving the way for [...]

Byline: Jeff Stein, Abha Bhattarai, Tony Romm President-elect Donald Trump is expected to select investment banker Howard Lutnick as his next commerce secretary, according to three people familiar with the [...]

Byline: Jeff Stein, Tony Romm President-elect Donald Trump is searching for a new candidate for treasury secretary amid a deadlock between the two front-runners for the position, according to three [...]

Byline: Tony Romm President-elect Donald Trump is preparing the U.S. government to adopt a more permissive stance toward cryptocurrency, eyeing a roster of industry-friendly candidates for key posts while his [...]

Byline: Tony Romm Cryptocurrency companies, executives and investors rejoiced Wednesday over the outcome of the 2024 election, believing their aggressive spending helped to secure a wave of new allies in [...]

Byline: Naomi Nix, Tony Romm The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is considering legal action against Meta over allegations that it improperly used financial data obtained from third parties in its [...]

Byline: Tony Romm Major businesses and their lobbying groups have seized on a set of recent Supreme Court decisions that sharply limit the government's regulatory powers, aiming to advance dozens [...]

Byline: Tony Romm Elon Musk appeared to acknowledge Tuesday that his pledge to help former president Donald Trump slash federal spending could unleash severe, short-term economic turmoil, underscoring the fiscal [...]

Byline: Jonathan O'Connell, Drew Harwell, Tony Romm Former president Donald Trump told cryptocurrency fans at a national bitcoin conference this summer that if elected to a second term, he would [...]

Byline: Tony Romm A second catastrophic hurricane in as many weeks has forced the U.S. government to grapple with a harsh reality: Climate calamities are becoming more frequent, deadly and [...]

Byline: Tony Romm A federal court on Wednesday opened the door for a raft of new, potentially massive wagers on the 2024 election, rebuffing federal regulators who had warned that [...]

Byline: Tony Romm Bernie Moreno smiles and crosses his arms, as sparks fly around steelworkers in the distance. A narrator introduces the Ohio Republican vying for U.S. Senate, touting his [...]

Byline: Tony Romm, Julie Zauzmer Weil The Biden administration on Thursday unfurled new draft rules that could raise taxes on about 100 large, highly profitable companies, some of which pay [...]

Byline: Tony Romm Even before President Joe Biden had announced his exit from the 2024 election, thousands of voters flocked to the website PredictIt last month, hoping to place bets [...]

Byline: Tony Romm To protect older Americans' life savings, President Joe Biden pledged in October to crack down on financial advisers who recommend investments just because they pay higher commissions. [...]

Byline: Tony Romm U.S. pension funds are beginning to explore investments around bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, a move that could expose millions of former teachers, police officers, firefighters and other [...]

Byline: Tony Romm NASHVILLE - There were stacks of orange coins, a crypto-themed stock car and a plethora of miniature rockets meant to embody the hope that prices might shoot [...]

Byline: Tony Romm Mere hours after the Supreme Court sharply curbed the power of federal agencies, conservatives and corporate lobbyists began plotting how to harness the favorable ruling in a [...]

Byline: Justin Jouvenal, Tony Romm, Ann E. Marimow A divided Supreme Court on Thursday invalidated the Securities and Exchange Commission's use of in-house legal proceedings to discipline those it believes [...]

Byline: Tony Romm The biotech giant Bayer has lobbied Congress over the past year to advance legislation that could shield the company from billions of dollars in lawsuits, part of [...]

Byline: Tony Romm CORRECTION: A previous version of this story misstated the name of the Blockchain Association and the Crypto Council for Innovation. It also misspelled the name of Sen. [...]

Byline: Tony Romm The U.S. government filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit Thursday against Live Nation Entertainment, the parent company of Ticketmaster, seeking to break up the conglomerate over allegations that [...]

Byline: Tony Romm, Perry Stein The Justice Department plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, as soon as Thursday, according to four people [...]

Byline: Tony Romm The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to restart its aggressive crackdown against payday lenders and other companies that offer high-cost, short-term loans to poor borrowers, after a [...]

Byline: Tony Romm A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the U.S. government from trying to limit credit card late fees, siding with banks and other business lobbyists that had [...]

Byline: Tony Romm The U.S. government is weighing whether to treat Apple, Google and PayPal-owned Venmo more like banks - and regularly inspect some of their operations - in a [...]

Byline: Tony Romm The U.S. government may lose between $233 billion and $521 billion to fraud each year, according to a rough, first-of-its-kind federal estimate released Tuesday. But the author [...]

Byline: Julian Mark, Perry Stein, Tony Romm The Justice Department plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against concert promoter Live Nation, people familiar with the investigation confirmed Tuesday. The specific [...]

Byline: Tony Romm AT&T, Charter, Comcast and Verizon are quietly trying to weaken a $42.5 billion federal program to improve internet access across the nation, aiming to block strict new [...]

Byline: Tony Romm A federal program that has helped roughly 23 million American households receive free or heavily discounted high-speed internet is set to see sharp cuts in May, leaving [...]

Byline: Tony Romm Senate Democrats on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping, roughly $1.3 billion bill that would expand the federal governmentÇÖs powers to find and prosecute pandemic fraud, as Washington scrambles [...]

Byline: Tony Romm, Ian Duncan The Biden administration on Tuesday required the largest freight railroads to operate their trains with at least two people on board, seeking to improve rail [...]

Byline: Tony Romm In the final months of the Trump administration, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin scrambled to wrest TikTok away from its Chinese parent company, arguing that only a new [...]

Byline: Tony Romm TRENTON, N.J. - Pharmaceutical giants are mounting a vigorous legal battle against President Bidenâs plan to lower seniorsâ prescription drug costs, urging federal judges here and around [...]

Byline: Tony Romm A vast array of U.S. businesses escalated their legal battle against the Biden administrationÇÖs new worker protections on Tuesday, arguing that the federal rules - meant to [...]

Byline: Tony Romm The U.S. government on Tuesday announced it would sharply limit the fees that credit card companies can charge customers who fall behind on their bills, aiming to [...]

Byline: Tony Romm Thirteen top Democrats in Congress urged the Biden administration on Sunday to reject the proposed merger between Capital One and Discover Financial Services, warning that the deal [...]

Byline: Tony Romm, Abha Bhattarai One day after announcing a blockbuster, $35.3 billion megamerger, the top executives for Capital One and Discover Financial Services started trying to sell their deal [...]

Byline: Tony Romm Nearly one year after a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, releasing toxic chemicals into the air and soil, the rail operatorÇÖs top executive [...]

Byline: Tony Romm The U.S. government on Wednesday proposed to limit bank overdraft fees, which companies can charge customers who spend more money than they have available in their accounts, [...]

Byline: Ian Duncan, Shawn Boburg and Tony Romm CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article neglected to note that the Lever, a progressive news site, had previously reported on the [...]

Byline: Tony Romm Some of the roughly 5 million families who receive rental assistance from the U.S. government could see sharp cuts to their benefits - and even the threat [...]

Byline: Tony Romm The Biden administration plans to more aggressively pursue thousands of small businesses with past-due pandemic loans, reversing an earlier policy that saw the U.S. government stop short [...]

Byline: Tony Romm Frustrated with airlines that charge passengers steep fees to check bags and change flights, President Biden last fall embarked on a campaign to crack down on the [...]

Byline: Tony Romm and Marianna Sotomayor For the second time this year, the U.S. government on Thursday began making formal preparations for a possible federal shutdown, as hard-line House conservatives [...]

Byline: Tony Romm Powerful financial firms that offer high-cost, short-term loans to poor Americans have delayed at least five federal investigations into their business practices since the start of last [...]

Byline: Tony Romm The U.S. government has halted some efforts to collect an estimated $62 billion in past-due pandemic loans made to small businesses, concluding that aggressive attempts to recover [...]

Byline: Tony Romm WASHINGTON -The U.S. government started notifying federal workers on Thursday that a shutdown appears imminent, as a Republican-led standoff on Capitol Hill forced the Biden administration to [...]

Byline: Tony Romm, Lisa Rein, Mariana Alfaro and Jeff Stein WASHINGTON - The U.S. government notified federal workers on Thursday that a shutdown appears imminent, as a Republican-led standoff on [...]