Dick Durbin: “Elon Musk helped gut the Consumer Financial Protection…”

“He's made more money in office than any other president in the history of the United States. And for his billionaire friends, the returns from the past year have been equally impressive. Elon Musk helped gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau right before it began to supervise his new digital payment platform. Oil billionaires like the Koch brothers have seen decades of climate regulation overturned after their multimillion dollar donations to the 2024 Trump campaign.” (00:36–00:46)

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