
Ben
Olinsky
Senior Vice President, Structural Reform and Governance; Senior Fellow
Trump’s legislation has provided hundreds of millions of dollars to corporations while reducing jobs and costing hardworking Americans millions.
Undoing the prepaid rule would leave thousands of households in every state vulnerable to unsavory practices.
With the help of Congress and the Trump administration, corporations are quietly seizing unprecedented power to erase and ignore U.S. public health and environmental protections.
Congress is considering legislation that would force federal agencies to prioritize corporate cost savings over public health and consumer safety.
Republicans have weaponized an obscure legislative provision to quickly repeal nine rules issued under Dodd-Frank, raising the risks of another disastrous financial crisis.
Americans’ finances are in danger from regulatory rollbacks against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The Bureau of Land Management’s planning processes are at risk under the Congressional Review Act.
The anti-democratic procedures of the Congressional Review Act have turned Congress into an auction house, where the bigger a special interest group’s campaign contributions, the faster its targeted environmental rule is overturned.
The Title X Family Planning Program is a cornerstone of ensuring affordable access to women’s health care and must continue to be supported.
Congress and the Trump administration aim to roll back environmental protections while repealing the Affordable Care Act—making Americans sicker while taking away their access to affordable treatment.
Congress is not only trying to remove vital federal regulations that protect Americans and their interests from big businesses, but also block agencies from making new ones.
Oil and gas companies affiliated with a lawsuit to block the Environmental Protection Agency’s limits on methane pollution wasted enough methane to power 4 million homes in 2015.
Climate action that meets the crisis’s urgency, creates good-quality jobs, benefits disadvantaged communities, and restores U.S. credibility on the global stage.
Democracy is under attack at home and abroad. We must act to ensure it is accessible to all, accountable, and can serve as a force of good.