Elizabeth Warren returned to the Senate Banking Committee this week ready to defend the crown jewel of her political career. The immediate target was Brian Johnson, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But Warren’s fury made the larger story impossible to miss. The agency she helped build is no longer moving in the direction she designed it to move. And while Warren fights over who will run it next, the Trump administration is already using the CFPB to advance a very different idea of consumer protection—one that accounts for immigration status, deportation risk and the consequences of lending money to borrowers who are not legally authorized to work in the United States. For families and small businesses, access to affordable financial products can be the difference between getting by and getting ahead. Chairman @SenatorTimScott made clear that the next CFPB Director must protect consumers without cutting off the products they rely on. pic.twitter.com/lQqqcJBcgp — U.S. Senate Banking Committee GOP (@BankingGOP) July 23, 2026 Thursday’s nomination hearing put the fight into the open. The Senate Banking Committee said Johnson would take over the CFPB at an important moment, with its enforcement posture, legal limits and relationship with lenders all under fierce debate. Chairman Tim Scott said the bureau’s next director must protect consumers, keep the agency inside the law and preserve access to affordable financial products for families and businesses. His message was not that the CFPB should disappear or leave dishonest financial companies untouched. It was that the bureau should operate with clear rules, fair treatment, congressional accountability and respect for the limits lawmakers placed on its power. That is a sharp departure from the left’s preferred model: an aggressive regulator with broad discretion to pressure banks, lenders and financial companies. Scott placed Johnson’s nomination inside a broader promise to make government work for the people who finance it. He said agency leaders must respect taxpayer dollars, remain accountable to Congress and remember whom they serve. For the CFPB, that means protecting borrowers without cutting off the loans, credit cards and other products families and small businesses rely on. Warren clearly understood what was at stake. In her opening remarks, she attacked the Trump administration’s stewardship of the bureau and warned that Johnson would continue it. The committee’s Democratic minority published Warren’s full statement after the hearing, preserving her objections to Johnson and her broader attack on the administration’s direction for the bureau. She accused acting CFPB Director Russ Vought of weakening enforcement, closing investigations, reducing penalties and favoring major financial companies. Those were Warren’s allegations, and the administration disputes her portrayal of an agenda it says is restoring legal limits and consumer choice. Warren then framed the Johnson nomination as a choice between “watchdogs” and “lapdogs” at the bureau, making clear that she sees Johnson as a threat to the CFPB model she created. She also attacked Johnson’s work in both government and the private financial sector, arguing that his industry experience should disqualify him from leading the regulator. Her statement barely engaged with the administration’s case for a more disciplined CFPB. Instead, Warren treated any move away from her preferred enforcement posture as proof that the bureau was being corrupted. The CFPB is supposed to protect consumers. But Trump has used it to protect his big corporate donors instead. I asked Trump's CFPB nominee if he'll stand up to the corruption. pic.twitter.com/ppj04fJmYy — Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) July 24, 2026 The clash is personal for Warren because the CFPB is the signature federal agency of her political career. It is her creation. After the 2008 financial crisis, Warren became the public face of the effort to establish a new federal regulator devoted to consumer finance. The Dodd-Frank law created the bureau, and the Obama administration placed Warren in charge of setting it up. In a 2011 letter preserved in the CFPB’s own archive, Warren described the new bureau as a single point of accountability for consumer financial markets and a permanent referee over lenders. She said it would serve as a “cop on the beat” for credit cards, mortgages, student loans and other products, enforcing federal law and making financial terms easier to compare. Warren wanted a durable federal machine that could survive elections, oversee every major provider under one roof and keep pressing her theory of financial regulation long after she left the room. Her letter also argued that borrowers and lenders should see the real costs and risks before signing a deal, creating what she called a level field built on transparency and accountability. She tied that transparency to personal responsibility, writing that Americans expected consequences when debts went unpaid. Fourteen years later, that same ability-to-repay principle is being applied in a way she never intended. She got the durable machine. What she did not get was permanent control over its mission. President Trump has now turned the bureau toward a risk Warren’s original model largely ignored: whether a borrower’s ability to earn income in the United States can vanish because that person is not legally authorized to work here. On May 19, the White House issued Executive Order 14406, directing the CFPB and other federal financial regulators to address risks across America’s banking system created by extending credit and services to inadmissible and removable aliens. The order instructed the CFPB to consider clarifying that potential deportation and the resulting loss of wages may affect a non-work-authorized borrower’s ability to repay a loan. It also directed the other federal financial regulators to issue guidance on managing credit risk connected to the non-work-authorized population. The order went beyond loan underwriting. It called for stronger customer-identification safeguards and a federal response to illicit cross-border financial activity tied to threats such as narcotics trafficking, human trafficking and money laundering. In other words, the administration placed credit policy inside a larger financial-integrity and public-safety strategy. This was not an order to reject every noncitizen who applies for credit. It was an order to stop pretending that legal authorization to remain employed in the United States has nothing to do with a borrower’s future income. The CFPB followed through on June 8. A Federal Register notice reminded lenders that federal law already requires a reasonable, good-faith assessment of a borrower’s ability to repay certain mortgages and open-end credit products. For decisions based on employment income, the bureau said lenders may consider information showing whether that income is likely to remain available. If application records indicate that a borrower is not lawfully present, lacks work authorization and may be removed from the country, the lender may have to consider the resulting risk to future U.S.-based wages. The guidance also acknowledged that lawful immigration statuses vary widely. It did not declare every noncitizen a bad credit risk, and it did not create an automatic loan denial based on nationality. Most importantly, the bureau stated that the document was guidance, not a binding new law. That distinction matters. The policy does not turn loan officers into immigration agents. It tells them they cannot ignore documented facts that directly affect whether an applicant will continue earning the income used to qualify for the loan. Then came the next step. On July 13—just ten days before Warren confronted Johnson at his nomination hearing—the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the FDIC and the National Credit Union Administration issued joint guidance to national banks, federally insured banks and credit unions. The agencies warned that lending to people who are not legally authorized to work in the United States may create elevated credit risk because their employment, income, continued residence and financial stability can be more uncertain. Banks and credit unions were told to identify, measure, monitor and control those risks through ordinary underwriting practices. The regulators also specifically instructed institutions to consider the CFPB’s June 8 statement during their own credit-risk reviews. That moved the policy beyond a single bureau announcement and into the supervisory expectations of the agencies overseeing national banks, federally insured banks and credit unions. By the time Johnson sat before Warren, the administration’s approach had already spread across the federal banking system. That is the policy reversal Warren is now fighting. The CFPB was built by the left as a powerful federal lever over the financial system. President Trump did not need to invent a competing agency or ask Congress for a new bureaucracy. He used the one Warren already gave him. The Trump administration could have kept popular consumer protections that returned money to cheated families. Instead, they're dismantling the CFPB. Same playbook, different day—voting rights, housing, taxes. They're pulling apart the institutions designed to protect us. — Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) July 23, 2026 Warren says the bureau is being dismantled. The more revealing truth is that it is being redirected. Under the Trump administration, consumer protection is no longer defined only as shielding borrowers from lenders. It also means protecting depositors, taxpayers and the financial system from risks the government can plainly see coming. A lender considers job history, income stability, debt and the value of collateral because repayment depends on real-world conditions. If an applicant has no legal authorization to work and faces a foreseeable loss of U.S.-based income, treating that fact as irrelevant is not compassion. It is politically motivated underwriting. Thursday’s hearing showed Warren trying to preserve the old mission by stopping the man President Trump selected to carry the new one forward. But the transformation is already underway. The executive order is signed. The CFPB guidance is published. The banking regulators have carried it into their supervisory instructions. Warren built an agency she expected to police the financial system according to the left’s priorities. President Trump is making it account for the costs of illegal immigration instead—and her latest Senate eruption shows she knows exactly what has been lost. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post Elizabeth Warren Erupts At Hearing For President Trump’s CFPB Pick — Her Own Agency Is Now Advancing His Agenda appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani lit a powder keg earlier this month when he hinted at his desire to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an expected visit to the Big Apple later this year. Although he has since backed off a bit from those remarks upon being repeatedly informed that he has no authority to do so, several other far-left, anti-Israel Democrats have offered their endorsement of his general opinion. UPDATE: Muslim Rep. Rashida Tlaib says she wants to carry out a "CITIZEN'S ARREST" with Mamdani against Benjamin Netanyahu in NYC "Arrest him. He's a war criminal…if he needs help, tell him to call me!" The Democrats are filled with Islamists who should be DEPORTED! pic.twitter.com/pxzWaAk7Jo — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 23, 2026 According to Breitbart, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) made the case during a weekend appearance on MS NOW: Khanna said, “Well, I have said that the United States should arrest, whether it’s him or Putin, under international law. That is the ICC, if they have a warrant for you, then you shouldn’t come to our jurisdiction. Now, the U.N. may be one thing, but if he’s coming for any other purpose, we should be upholding international law. It has nothing to do with Israel. I’d do it for Putin too, anyone who has a warrant for war crimes.”   His remarks sparked a new wave of social media discussion: Khanna is an attorney who knows that under US law Netanyahu cannot be legally arrested due to an ICC warrant. The is no wiggle room. US law is supreme. — Raymond38978374 (@Raymond38978374) July 25, 2026 Hamas, IRG, Hezbollah, and Houthis pretty sure he doesn't mean them. — Jason Martell (@jasonwmartell) July 25, 2026 Because it's great publicity and false promises for his followers who don't know it cannot happen. Pretty much sums up @RoKhanna entire political career? — Vladamir Untruksur (@VladUntruksur) July 25, 2026 The Washington Times added these details: Mr. Mamdani followed up by admitting he doesn’t have the legal authority to arrest Mr. Netanyahu. New York City lacks the independent power to act on ICC warrants, plus the U.S. is not a member of the ICC and the U.N. maintains diplomatic protection for leaders visiting its New York headquarters. Still, Mr. Khanna didn’t let up, saying, “This is about accountability. You can’t just kill women and children, have an ICC arrest warrant and then walk into the United States of America and think nothing is gonna happen to you. If you come to our jurisdiction, America is a country that’s gonna enforce international law.” And here’s another clip of the California Democrat: Rep. Ro Khanna calls for the arrests of Netanyahu and Putin: "The American president should arrest Netanyahu or Putin in accordance with international law. Full stop…" "If the ICC has an arrest warrant for someone, they should be arrested by America if they come into… pic.twitter.com/lHj51Vz4vG — MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) July 24, 2026 What are your thoughts? TAP HERE TO ADD YOUR VOTE This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post Another Democrat Joins Mamdani’s Calls For Netanyahu To Be Arrested appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

A newly surfaced surveillance video from downtown Tucson shows how fast a crowded night out turned into a mass shooting. It also shows how fast one police officer moved to stop it. Police say 21-year-old David Leroy French opened fire near East Congress Street and North Sixth Avenue shortly after 2 a.m. on July 19, striking nine people. The video appears to show a man firing toward a crowd before running across the street. Within seconds, an officer confronts him and the man falls to the pavement. French survived and is now facing 19 felony charges. The nine people struck by the gunfire were all initially listed in critical condition. The footage is disturbing, but it makes the speed of the officer’s response impossible to miss:   The full encounter unfolds in roughly 10 seconds. The Arizona Daily Star and KOLD reconstructed the shooting through police statements, surveillance footage and the interim complaint filed against French. The reports say a verbal argument preceded the gunfire near East Congress and North Sixth shortly after 2 a.m. Officers assigned nearby heard shots, saw a man running and issued commands. One officer then fired, striking French and ending a sequence in which nine other people had already been wounded. Investigators said the surveillance footage confirmed French as the shooter. He is charged with nine counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, nine counts of aggravated assault causing serious physical injury and one count of discharging a firearm at a structure. French appeared before a judge from his hospital bed on July 23 and was ordered held without bond. His next court date was tentatively set for August 3, and authorities have said more charges remain possible as the investigation continues. One of the local Tucson accounts circulating the surveillance footage posted the raw clip on Saturday: SHOOTING ON CONGRESS SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE 7/19/26 pic.twitter.com/7hPkumfZgC — TMZTucson (@TmzTucson) July 25, 2026 What happened that night is horrifying enough on its own. French’s history makes the case even harder to stomach. Reports from KGUN 9 and The Arizona Daily Star, together with two statements from the Pima County Attorney’s Office and Pima County Attorney’s Office, establish that French was already serving probation for a felony gun crime. That conviction barred him from legally possessing a firearm. The earlier case began with a 2024 confrontation at a Tucson car wash, where an employee asked French and others to leave. French pulled out a rifle, and surveillance footage showed him firing in the employee’s direction. French pleaded guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and received four years of probation plus 100 hours of community restitution. The original charge carried a possible sentence ranging from two years to nearly nine years. A dangerous-offense allegation that could have triggered mandatory prison time was dropped as part of the plea. Former Pima County prosecutor David Berkman said French would still have been in prison on July 19 if that allegation had remained and led to a conviction. The probation department evaluated French for intensive probation, but the judge imposed standard probation instead. County Attorney Laura Conover defended the plea as a way to secure a felony conviction without accepting the risks of trial. Her office said French had no documented probation violations before the downtown shooting. It also disclosed on July 24 that neither prosecutors nor victim-services staff had succeeded in reaching the employee from the 2024 case. The office said that loss of contact made a trial difficult, though not impossible. That history does not decide the current case, and French is presumed innocent of the new charges unless proven guilty in court. It does, however, raise an unavoidable question about how a convicted felon who had already fired a rifle toward another person ended up back on the street, allegedly carrying another gun. The nine people wounded downtown are now living with the consequences. KTAR reported that several victims had been released from the hospital by July 20 while others remained under medical care. Police had initially described all nine as critically injured, underscoring how easily the attack could have produced an even more devastating outcome. The victims’ names have not been publicly released, and neither has the officer’s name. The anonymity should not make what happened feel abstract: nine people went downtown and left with gunshot wounds because of an eruption of violence that lasted only seconds. The surveillance video shows people running for safety as the threat moves through the street. It also shows an officer moving toward that threat when instinct would tell almost anyone else to get away. That response may have prevented nine wounded victims from becoming an even larger toll. It is the decisive moment in the footage, and it deserves to be remembered alongside every question now being asked about the accused man’s probation. The officer deserves gratitude. The decisions that left French on probation deserve scrutiny. Both truths are visible in the same terrible 10 seconds. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. What are your thoughts? TAP HERE TO ADD YOUR VOTE The post WATCH: Tucson Officer Takes Down Alleged Mass Shooter In Seconds appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

After being silent for weeks, Senator Mitch McConnell’s staff has released a new statement. On Saturday, Senator Mitch McConnell’s senior advisor, David Popp, released a statement that attempted to address Americans growing concerns of Senator Mitch McConnell’s ability to serve as a U.S. Senator after he was hospitalized in June. In the statement, Popp shared that McConnell has being meeting with his staff behind closed doors to discuss ongoing Senate legislation. When it came to providing a health update, Popp was scarce with details and shared McConnell was still in rehab. Mediaite provided full quotes from McConnell’s staff: A spokesperson for Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) gave an update on his health Saturday, as calls for transparency mount over the veteran elected official’s weeks-long absence from Capitol Hill. “The Senator continues to meet with staff regarding Senate and Kentucky business, including discussions on defense appropriations, foreign policy, the farm bill, constituent services and constituent federal grant requests,” Spokesman David Popp said in a statement to The Washington Post. Popp added, “As the Senator continues to improve in rehab, we will be sure to keep you updated.” McConnell has been absent for about six weeks, ever since being rushed to the hospital on June 14 after being reportedly found unconscious in his home. The prolonged absence has sparked conspiracy theories and wild speculation, including a post from Trump confidante Laura Loomer claiming McConnell was actually brain dead. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) has repeatedly called for clarity, after telling the press he has received no direct communication from McConnell’s office about the 84-year-old senator’s health. Republican Senator of West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito claimed she spoke with someone who met with McConnell in the hospital and they told her that he was “clear minded.” Watch here: Senator Shelley Moore Capito says she knows someone who visited Sen. Mitch McConnell in the hospital who says he’s ‘clear-minded’ and ‘just needs to get stronger.’ pic.twitter.com/cDMIDTUPTb — Nicholas A Ballasy (@NicholasBallasy) July 26, 2026 Two weeks ago, Sen. Mitch McConnell provided a health update on his Facebook page that included a photo of himself sitting in a hospital bed alongside his wife Elaine Chao. Take a look: Why does the text on the newspaper McConnell’s staff claim he’s holding look AI generated? The text is blurry and the tag on his shirt is blurred. Also, if he’s in the hospital, why is there no IV connected to him to monitor his health? This is such bullshit. His staff are… pic.twitter.com/Zy45jeIefB — Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) July 12, 2026 The Northern Kentucky Tribune provided McConnell’s full statement: U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell released the following note to constituents regarding his hospitalization and recovery: “To my fellow Kentuckians – “When you elected me to a seventh term and made me our Commonwealth’s longest serving Senator, you did so trusting that I’d keep showing up to fight for you every day. And over the past several weeks, Elaine and I have appreciated both your well wishes and your honest questions about what was keeping me away from the Senate. “You all know how folks of my generation often hesitate to share the vulnerability that comes with growing older. Even in the public eye, I feel that same instinct – I can’t help it. “But at the same time, I’ve had more than my share of experience with physical vulnerabilities. Surviving childhood polio meant spending my entire life with mobility challenges. They haven’t exactly gotten easier to manage with age. And last month, I took a fall which landed me in the hospital. “My doctors have confirmed that I didn’t break any bones or suffer a concussion. I didn’t have a heart attack or a stroke. I don’t have any tumors or hemorrhages. But I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital. While receiving excellent care over the past several weeks, I’ve also had to deal with a mild case of pneumonia. “I can assure you that I’ve been a good patient. At my age, I tend to do what my doctors tell me to do. I’ve submitted to every test they can think of to help figure out what caused this incident. And I’m continuing to do everything they ask to speed my recovery. In fact, with signs of continued progress, I’ve been able to move from hospital care to a rehabilitation center where I’ll keep regaining my strength. “As much as it frustrates me, this process takes time. And on the advice of my doctors, I won’t be able to return to the Senate floor to vote quite yet. But rest assured that, in the meantime, I’m not taking a break from the Senate business that matters to you. I’ve been working closely with my legislative staff on current issues, and with my Kentucky team who help me provide timely constituent services across our Commonwealth. I’ve also been keeping in touch with my Senate colleagues on the appropriations process, midterm politics, and everything in between. “You’re right to expect your representatives to work hard for you. And part of my decision to retire at the end of my term this coming January was being honest about the demands of Senate work. But I still have unfinished business to complete on your behalf, and I have every intention of finishing the job you elected me to do. “I’ll keep working hard to get back on the Senate floor as soon as possible. And I’ll keep you posted on the progress of my recovery. Until then, I’m so grateful for your prayers and well wishes.” What are your thoughts? What are your thoughts? TAP HERE TO ADD YOUR VOTE This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post Sen. Mitch McConnell’s Staff Releases New Health Update appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

President Trump may have just settled the biggest question hanging over the future of the MAGA movement. A new report says the president has privately moved toward Vice President J.D. Vance as his preferred successor for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination, placing Vance ahead of Secretary of State Marco Rubio for the moment. The development would mark a major shift after months in which Trump reportedly kept both men in contention and asked allies what they thought of each potential heir. The first wave of reporting quickly put the choice—and its enormous stakes for the America First movement—into public view. READ NOW: Nolte–Report: Trump Backs Vance over Rubio as 2028 Successor — Well, for now at least, according to this report from MS Now, Trump sees Vance as his chosen and likely…https://t.co/RqFHSArhoj — Top News by CPAC (@TopNewsbyCPAC) July 24, 2026 Breitbart News reports that five people familiar with President Trump’s private commentary say the months-long Vance-versus-Rubio dynamic has recently changed. According to that account, Trump had treated the two men like competing finalists, sounding out aides and donors without tipping his hand. In recent weeks, however, the president has reportedly stopped weighing them in the same open-ended way and has begun speaking of Vance as the likely successor. The report says Vance’s recent media tour helped move the needle. The vice president took his message into a wide range of interviews, including difficult or skeptical venues, and emerged with his standing strengthened. Trump was also said to be pleased with Vance’s leadership of the administration’s anti-fraud task force and the broader public profile he has built while serving as vice president. That does not mean Rubio has been pushed out of the movement—or that a formal endorsement has been made. People close to both Vance and Rubio dispute the idea that there is a bitter rivalry between them. Rubio has also made clear that he would support Vance rather than challenge him if the vice president launches a 2028 campaign. Trump himself has previously floated the two men as a powerful future ticket. Breitbart News reported in June that President Trump called a possible Vance-Rubio ticket “very unbeatable.” He praised both men as talented, said they work well together, and argued that Democrats would have an extraordinarily difficult time defeating them as a team. Trump also stressed that there was still plenty of time before 2028 and that the two men would have to agree to such an arrangement. The latest polling picture shows why Vance is being treated as more than a speculative name. JD Vance remains the Republican Party’s clear frontrunner for the Republican nomination in 2028 https://t.co/CCqJCdaUhi https://t.co/nZy5u35Dz3 — Daily Mail US (@Daily_MailUS) July 26, 2026 Vance has spent his vice presidency doing exactly what a future standard-bearer must do: defending the administration, carrying the America First message into hostile rooms, and building his own relationship with Republican voters without breaking from President Trump. Rubio, meanwhile, remains one of the strongest figures in the administration. His role at the State Department has given him a national-security portfolio and a level of governing experience that would make him a formidable contender in almost any Republican field. But if this report is accurate, the president now sees Vance as the man best positioned to carry MAGA into its next chapter—with Rubio potentially beside him rather than against him. No endorsement has been publicly announced, and 2028 remains a long way off. President Trump is famous for keeping talented people competing and for refusing to lock himself into a political choice too early. Still, when Trump begins signaling that one candidate has moved ahead, Republicans listen. And right now, the reported signal points directly at J.D. Vance. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post REPORT: President Trump Privately Signals His Preferred 2028 Successor appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.