It’s taken just a few weeks in office, but the Trump administration’s apparent vision for economic populism is coming into focus: a blueprint for mass layoffs, creeping inflation, and a dissolution of consumer safeguards reviled by many wealthy Republican donors and politicians.

Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) pressed President Trump’s nominee to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) over who will be making key decisions at the agency Thursday, after it dismissed

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the city of Baltimore butted heads and faced skeptical questions from a federal judge in Maryland over whether statements from acting Director Russell Vought threatening to zero out the agency’s funding amounted to an unlawful and final agency action.