American Hardwood said:

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This is the one issue I have with term limits. It shifts power to the faceless, unelected operatives in the shadow government of the Deep State. They don't care who gets elected, they just hop around from position to position continuing to push the agenda from the cover of obscurity.

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CIA whistleblower claims the agency “took back 40 boxes of JFK and MK-Ultra files” that Tulsi Gabbard was reviewing for declassification.

The whistleblower also alleges the CIA “illegally monitored the computer and phone usage” of Gabbard’s investigators during the probe into… pic.twitter.com/AIRfS2utQE

— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) May 13, 2026

BREAKING: CIA statement to @FoxNews on the active CIA employee testifying in the Senate Homeland Security Committee this AM on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic & a possible government coverup.

“The Committee acted in bad faith by subpoenaing an Agency officer for testimony…

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) May 13, 2026

Fox’s Bill Melugin just exposed the stunning no-show by Senate Democrats at the CIA whistleblower hearing on Covid.

Not a SINGLE Democrat was in the room — even though several sit on the Homeland Security Committee.

MELUGIN: “There are no Senate Democrats inside of that hearing… pic.twitter.com/dERE0QpHWY

— Overton (@overton_news) May 13, 2026

will25u said:

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BREAKING: CIA statement to @FoxNews on the active CIA employee testifying in the Senate Homeland Security Committee this AM on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic & a possible government coverup.

“The Committee acted in bad faith by subpoenaing an Agency officer for testimony…

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) May 13, 2026

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Leaving everything else aside, how is this even a real post in May 2026 under a President Trump administration? These people sound as rogue as ever, which was already obvious when they tried to dismiss the Russiagate hoax as mere “tradecraft errors,” forcing Tulsi Gabbard to step… pic.twitter.com/4jS7miz4Xb

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) May 13, 2026

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Democrats used a procedural tool called the Congressional Review Act to force more than a dozen resolutions targeting Trump's rollback of the CFPB, covering everything from overdraft fees and medical debt to military lending protections. The real goal wasn't legislation it was to put vulnerable Republican senators on the record ahead of the 2026 midterms and use the votes in campaign ads.

The votes targeted changes made at the CFPB since Trump returned to office and put Budget Director Russell Vought in charge. Since February 2025, Vought has rolled back 67 policies and scaled back the bureau's operations, part of a broader effort to rein in an agency the administration says spent years operating without meaningful limits.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who pushed for the CFPB's creation while teaching at Harvard Law School and has been its loudest defender in Congress ever since, led the Democratic charge on the Senate floor.

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"The Trump Administration is hell-bent on destroying the agency," Warren said, adding that the administration had "abandoned consumers and is making life more expensive for them."

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She left out an inconvenient number. Democrats like to cite the CFPB's own figure of $19.7 billion returned to consumers through enforcement actions and settlements since the bureau's founding. According to a February estimate from the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the CFPB has cost consumers and lenders between $237 billion and $369 billion since its creation, largely by driving up borrowing costs through aggressive regulation. For every dollar the bureau clawed back in settlements, it may have taken ten from ordinary Americans in higher loan rates and fees.

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