Scam Calls Are Getting Worse: Here's Why

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🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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This week, a court filing showed that the Trump Administration has declared the current funding structure for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to be illegal. The agency was created in the wake of the global financial crisis to protect consumers and collect consumer complaints. Project 2025 architect Russell Vought is currently acting director of the CFPB. He has said repeatedly that he wants to see the CFPB close its doors, and back in February, he ordered employees of the agency to stop working. To talk more about the Trump Administration taking yet another axe to the CFPB and what happens next, we spoke to David Dayen, executive editor of The American Prospect. And in headlines, the Justice Department sues to block new Congressional district boundaries approved by California voters, the State Department makes it harder for people with conditions including cancer and diabetes to obtain visas, and Kristi Noem gives out $10,000 bonus checks to some TSA agents who worked through the shutdown.

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0:00.0	It's Friday, November 14th.
0:04.3	I'm Jane Koston and this is What Today, the show that has a very basic question for conservative podcast host Ben Shapiro.
0:11.4	After he made this observation on a show on Thursday.
0:14.4	So yesterday, after the House of Representatives reopened, Representative Adelita Grorijova of Arizona became the 218th and final
0:23.0	signature on the discharge petition. She joined all the other Democrats as well as four Republicans,
0:29.1	including two who hate President Trump and would like to destroy his presidency. That would be
0:33.2	Thomas Massey and Marjorie Taylor Green, as well as Lauren Bobert and Nancy Mays.
0:39.1	Why would releasing the Epstein files, as promised by FBI director Cash Patel last year,
0:43.9	and as requested by Vice President J.D. Vance on numerous occasions,
0:47.7	destroy President Donald Trump's presidency?
0:51.0	Hmm!
0:53.1	Yeah. On today's show, the Department of Justice takes California to court over what it calls racial gerrymandering,
1:04.4	something that's totally unacceptable, unless your taxes, in which case, carry on.
1:09.3	And the Trump administration points to a surprising culprit
1:11.8	behind America's health care costs. Obese visa applicants? But let's start with the Consumer
1:17.8	Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB. This week, a court filing showed that the Trump
1:23.5	administration has declared the current funding structure for the CFPB to be illegal.
1:28.3	The agency was created in the wake of the global financial crisis to protect consumers and
1:32.4	collect their complaints. Typically, it gets its money from the Federal Reserve, but now the
1:36.8	Justice Department has decided that the CFPB can only be funded if the Federal Reserve is
1:40.8	operating at a surplus, which it isn't. I don't know if you'll be able to believe this, but the CFPB has been in the Trump administration's
1:48.2	crosshairs since Trump took office in January. Project 2025 architect Russell Vote,
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