{"id":38298,"date":"2025-12-23T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/democratic-states-sue-to-block-trumps-defunding-of-us-consumer-watchdog\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:00:11","slug":"democratic-states-sue-to-block-trumps-defunding-of-us-consumer-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/democratic-states-sue-to-block-trumps-defunding-of-us-consumer-watchdog\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic states sue to block Trump\u2019s defunding of US consumer watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys general from 21 states and DC argue defunding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unlawful<\/p>\n<p>A coalition of Democratic-led states filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to prevent Donald Trump\u2019s administration from defunding the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by refusing to request money from the Federal Reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic attorneys general from 21 states and the District of Columbia filed the lawsuit in federal court in Oregon, arguing that the administration\u2019s decision not to seek additional funding for the US consumer watchdog is unlawful and undermines Congress\u2019s authority under the US constitution.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/22\/democrats-lawsuit-trump-consumer-financial-protection-bureau\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys general from 21 states and DC argue defunding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unlawful A coalition of Democratic-led states filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to prevent Donald Trump\u2019s administration from defunding the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by refusing to request money from the Federal Reserve. Democratic attorneys general from 21 states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 17:18:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}