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WASHINGTON—The Defense Credit Union Council Sunday sharply criticized the exclusion of key credit union provisions from the final text of the Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), saying Congress stripped out bipartisan Senate-backed measures that would have strengthened the NCUA’s Central Liquidity Facility and expanded the Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund.

WASHINGTON—U.S. consumers added $16 billion in credit card debt during the third quarter of 2025, a significantly slower pace of borrowing than a year earlier, according to an inflation-adjusted analysis by WalletHub of the Federal Reserve’s latest Consumer Credit report released Friday.

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif.— As America’s Credit Unions, the American Association of Credit Union Leagues (AACUL) and league leaders wrapped three days of concentrated strategy at the AACUL Winter Conference, one message rose above all according to the Illinois Credit Union League: CUs’  strength is—and continues to be—the trust built between leagues and ACU.