{"id":1199,"date":"2026-09-17T23:01:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/2026\/09\/17\/us-senate-panel-votes-to-advance-trump-pick-for-consumer-watchdog\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T23:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:01:37","slug":"us-senate-panel-votes-to-advance-trump-pick-for-consumer-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/2026\/09\/17\/us-senate-panel-votes-to-advance-trump-pick-for-consumer-watchdog\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senate panel votes to advance Trump pick for consumer watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) &#8211; A U.S. Senate panel on Thursday voted \u200calong party lines to advance \u200cPresident Donald Trump&#8217;s nomination of Capital One \u200bexecutive Brian Johnson to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, setting up a vote by the full Senate.<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->The \u200cRepublican-led Senate Banking \u2060Committee voted 13-11 to approve Johnson&#8217;s nomination over Democratic \u2060objections that he is too close to the industry he would \u200bbe expected \u200bto oversee and \u200bthat the White \u200cHouse put forward his name after initially seeking to destroy the CFPB outright.<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->It was not immediately clear when the full Senate could take \u200cup Johnson&#8217;s nomination. However, \u200bthe Trump administration has \u200bsaid \u200bit paused previous plans to \u200cfire the vast majority \u200bof CFPB \u200bstaff to allow Johnson, who served as the CFPB&#8217;s deputy director during \u200bthe \u200cfirst Trump administration, to consider whether \u200bto pursue them.<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\"><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->(Reporting by Douglas \u200bGillison in Washington)<!-- HTML_TAG_END -->  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) &#8211; A U.S. Senate pan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btbitcoin.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}