The top federal official in charge of protecting student borrowers from predatory lenders, announced his resignation on Monday. In a letter to Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Mick Mulvaney, Seth Frotman said the bureau’s current leadership is allowing student loan companies to “drive millions of Americans to financial ruin with impunity.”
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Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller joins lawsuit against Trump’s family separation policy
Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller has joined 16 other state attorneys general in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration treatment of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. The lawsuit, filed in federal district court in Seattle, seeks an immediate injunction to end the “Trump Administration’s practice of refusing entry to asylum applicants who present at […]
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Iowa Attorney General joins protest against the Trump administration’s new student loan policy (Updated)
Two months after the Republican majority in the Iowa legislature cut Attorney General Tom Miller’s budget by $600,000 to punish the attorney general for his opposition to policies of the Trump administration, Miller is pushing back against a policy change by the U.S. Department of Education
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Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller challenges a Trump administration rule change that could take tips away from servers
For the 37th time in just over a year, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller is taking on the Trump administration. On Monday, Miller joined with 16 other state attorneys general in sending a letter to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) objecting to plans to overturn an Obama era regulation that protects the tips of restaurant and bar workers.
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Iowa Commission of Latino Affairs calls Trump’s DACA decision ‘callous’ and a violation of Iowa values
On Monday, the Iowa Commission of Latino Affairs issued an official statement opposing President Trump’s order to terminate DACA.
