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Re:U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice by sangnoir on Monday February 05, 2018 @01:03PM (#16310599)
Same story at the EPA and other agencies. I believe the agenda was summarized as "deconstruction of the administrative state".
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Re:U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice by jorblumesea on Monday February 05, 2018 @01:52PM (#16310983)
I mean, scaling back or disbanding the federal government has been the GOP's dream for the past 50 years. It also strengthens the argument that "government doesn't work" because they made government not work.

People blame Trump but this has been a conservative agenda item for decades.

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Re:U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice by nkassis on Monday February 05, 2018 @04:24PM (#16312330)
Trump did appointed some of loudest voices against those departments to lead them so he's pretty much responsible.
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Re:U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice by jorblumesea on Monday February 05, 2018 @05:18PM (#16312768)
Trump is just parroting fox and friends, which is basically how the government works now apparently. Fox -> Trump -> Fox
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Re:U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice by Crontab on Monday February 05, 2018 @01:27PM (#16310796)
Agreed. The only thing Trump didn't do was appoint a pacifist as Secretary of Defense.
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