- Provisions to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- A effort to eliminate the federal audit watchdog (PCAOB)
- EPA emissions rollbacks that had nothing to do with the budget

- Defunding the CFPB: Gone.
- Merging PCAOB into the SEC: Deregulation effort removed.
- Postal Service EV sell-off mandate: Removed.
- Cutting NEPA environmental reviews for oil/gas projects: Struck.

3/ Congress gave us independent agencies; the Court is about to give us Kelly and has already given us PCAOB, Seila Law, etc. Congress gave us broad delegations of certain powers; the Court gave us the major questions doctrine.

- Defunds watchdogs and public interest enforcement
- Sec. 51001: Defunds the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
- Sec. 52001: Cuts regulatory enforcement resources from oversight bodies like the PCAOB.
- Project 2025: Labels oversight and regulation as “deep state overreach.”

WATCH: Ranking Member Maxine Waters blasts the GOP's Tax Scam bill that would eliminate the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB,) which oversees auditors to prevent frauds like #Enron and ensure that companies controlled by the Chinese Communist Party are on the up.

Para uma empresa ter capital aberto na Nasdaq (como o Nubank) precisa ser auditado por uma empresa registrada nos órgãos americanos (PCAOB). Com entidades em países diferentes, docs em línguas diferentes, fica praticamente impossível não ser uma B4 auditando esse tipo de CIA.

Since they’re “auditors” doing an “audit” surely the PCAOB will not allow this

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- A clause that would’ve made it nearly impossible for courts to hold federal agencies in contempt
- A plan to dump food aid costs onto already-strained state budgets
- Provisions to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- A effort to eliminate the federal audit watchdog (PCAOB)

this is fedposting but the feds are the pcaob

Why have the Free Enterprise Fund decision about double for cause removal (if President could just fire PCAOB members picked by SEC)? This is the same issue in the IAF litigation. I do think Trump can fire the Librarian. Unlike GAO, no joint resolution needed for removal. 2/

The Senate parliamentarian blocked a proposal to fold the U.S. audit watchdog into the Securities and Exchange Commission due to budget reconciliation rule violations

US audit regulator weighs deep staff cuts to unit overseeing accounting firms ft.trib.al/lVH3JIU

43/ Roberts asks: Other than Humphrey's, what other precdents are you reling on?

And now Agarwal is relying on Free Enterprise Fund v. PCAOB, and he is misinterpreting dicta vs. holding. I don't know how respondent can "rely" on Free Enterprise Fund, rather than reconcile or synthesize.

Me, to the wife: you gotta read my new article, I go into detail about why Tether choosing AICPA auditing standards was bizarre and how they should’ve obviously chosen PCAOB auditing standards, duh

Wife: …… I’m going to go to work now, bye.

The unitary executive theory for an *unconditional* *absolute* presidential power to fire officers is a manufactured myth.

I am ready w/ my amicus brief from SEC v. Jarkesy showing their anti-originalism & misuse of Founding-era sources.
Who wants my help for free?
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Worth a read on why PCAOB is worth saving. Written by the women who exposed Enron & Worldcom.

Better get the PCAOB to look into DOGE

Twenty years have passed since Enron, Worldcom so memories have faded on why PCAOB was created in the first place @bettermarkets.bsky.social Ben Schriffin says.

Wherein I use the word “sprezzatura” in an official comment letter to the US audit regulator. assets.pcaobus.org/pcaob-dev/do...