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WASHINGTON—Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Thursday accused the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s acting leadership of undercutting President Trump’s call for a one-year 10% cap on credit-card interest rates, urging the agency to take immediate action to rein in what she described as excessive consumer costs.

 

WASHINGTON—A long-stalled bipartisan push to boost competition in the credit card market moved closer to becoming law late Friday, as Sens. Roger Marshall (R-KS) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) advanced a new amendment attached to the Senate Agriculture Committee’s markup of the Digital Asset Market Structure and Investor Protection Act, commonly known as the Clarity Act.

WASHINGTON--U.S. senators could be headed into a compressed and unpredictable workweek as they race to finalize the remaining six federal funding bills, with party leaders likely needing to exert pressure to prevent a partial government shutdown ahead of the Jan. 30 deadline.

WASHINGTON--Reporting threshold modernizations important to credit unions moved forward as the House Financial Services Committee voted to advance two bills Thursday, America’s Credit Unions reported, noting it wrote in support of both bills in advance of to the markup, while urging the committee to reject any amendments establishing a national credit card rate cap or altering the credit card interchange system.