It's Tuesday, February 11th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Waddey, the show that has decided

it has heard too many Taylor Swift-Travs Kelsey conspiracy theories.

On today's show, President Donald Trump doubles down on his plan to kick Palestinians out of Gaza.

And a federal judge says that the White House has defied his order to unfreeze billions in federal grants.

But let's start with the administration's push to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

If you viscerally remember the 2008 financial crisis, you know why the

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created. The gross combination of predatory lenders,

financial institutions running amok, and a housing bubble led to the biggest financial downturn

in the United States since the Great Depression. I graduated from college during

that time, as did millions of millennials. And if you ever wondered why people around my age

are the way we are, well, it wasn't the avocado toast we were all allegedly purchasing.

Anyway, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created to protect consumers from the scams that

left millions of Americans out of work

and out of their homes during the Great Recession. And the scams that banks and other big

financial institutions have tried to run on Americans ever since. Remember back in 2016 when

Wells Fargo opened millions of fake accounts in the names of customers, even forging signatures

and creating fake

pin numbers to activate accounts, the CFPB demanded they pay back more than $3 billion in redress

to consumers and civil penalties. And the big banks and Republicans hated them for doing that.

And so did Elon Musk, who wants to destroy the CFPB, and happens to also want to turn

Twitter into a banking platform, which the CFPB would regulate. So it makes all too much sense to see

Trump and Musk and the boys of the Department of Government Efficiency, taking aim at an independent

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