All Trump Administration articles
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ArticleTop Ethics and Compliance Failures of 2025
The 2025 year has been so rich with compliance stinkers, and rife with poor judgment, compliance missteps, outright malfeasance and greed, greed, greed, that it was almost impossible to choose just six epic compliance failures from this year’s massive poop pile.
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ArticleTrump tirade against DEI turns to proxy advisors and shareholder proposals
President Donald Trump has directed the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to review—and remove—any SEC rules or guidance that allow proxy advisors to influence business practices related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies.
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ArticleTrump takes aim at state AI laws, promises federal action on AI legislation
President Donald Trump has issued an executive order aimed at dismantling the artificial intelligence (AI) laws of California, Colorado and three other states with comprehensive laws.
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ArticleFCC rolls back Biden-era cybersecurity requirements for telecoms
Telecommunication companies are now on the honor system to protect their networks from cyber attacks, following a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) vote that removed requirements that they harden their networks.
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ArticleOCC proposes dropping its ‘recovery plan’ requirements for big banks
Less than a year after a new rule required more of the U.S.’s biggest banks to draft “recovery” plans in case of failure, the rule is on its way out.
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ArticleSenate Democrats question Vought on comments about closing CFPB in months
Senate Democrats warned OMB Director Russell Vought Tuesday that it would be illegal for the Trump administration to shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, citing a recent court decision barring actions that could severely harm the agency.
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News BriefBinance’s Changpeng Zhao receives presidential pardon from Trump
The founder of crypto exchange Binance, Changpeng Zhao, received a pardon from President Donald Trump. This pardon comes almost two years after Zhao signed a plea agreement and was sentenced to a four-month prison sentence.
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News BriefSmartmatic faces DOJ charges amid allegations of election contract bribes
Three executives of a multinational voting machine company in the crosshairs of President Donald Trump since 2020 have been indicted in Florida by the U.S. Department of Justice for allegedly paying $1 million in bribes to the Philippines top election official.
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News BriefSEC reportedly investigating MassMutual’s accounting amid ongoing government shutdown
Even though the U.S. federal government is currently shut down, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission appears to still be at work. The financial regulator is reportedly investigating a major insurance and asset management company over its accounting practices.
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ArticleNavigating HHS and FDA’s overhaul of the food and beverage industry
Under the Trump administration, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration have been hellbent on eliminating synthetic food dyes from food and beverage products, forcing a jarring and costly overhaul with cascading impacts on the operations of the entire industry.
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News BriefFTC secures $5.7M settlement after business data provider repeatedly broke compliance order
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accused business credit reporting company Dun & Bradstreet of failing to comply with the commission’s 2022 order.
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ArticleFinCEN seeks to lighten the regulatory load on casinos
Regulatory relief from anti-money laundering rules is in the cards for casinos, insurance companies and other non-bank financial institutions, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) said Monday.
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News BriefAmazon to pay $2.5 billion in FTC settlement over 'deceptive' Prime sign-ups
Amazon settled a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission Thursday over allegedly enrolling consumers into its Amazon Prime subscription and making it difficult to cancel. The FTC says the amount of the settlement is one of the biggest in its history.
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Basic PageTrump wants SEC to toss quarterly reporting requirement
President Donald Trump is pushing for a shake-up in corporate reporting rules, calling on companies to file earnings with the SEC only twice a year instead of every quarter.
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ArticleDisney hit with $10M FTC fine for allegedly collecting children’s data
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed an enforcement action against Disney for allegedly collecting personal information about children, and then threw salt in the wound by calling the company out in an alert emailed to an untold number of businesses.
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News BriefFederal Reserve Governor sues Trump over attempted removal
President Donald Trump announced he would fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook on Monday. On Thursday, Cook filed a lawsuit claiming Trump cannot remove her from office and is violating federal law.
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ArticleTrump tries alternative approach on California air standards agency by alleging anti-white bias
The Trump administration has intensified its fight with California as the DOJ launched an investigation into whether the state’s environmental agency is violating federal law by pursuing racial equity.
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News BriefEPA relaunches online portal for thousands of environmental guidance documents
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reopened its guidance portal on Wednesday. This online portal is a searchable database of EPA guidance documents, first created during President Donald Trump’s first term and shuttered under the Biden administration.
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News BriefNew federal memo signals elevated risk to colleges engaging in DEI activity
A new memorandum from President Trump directs increased federal scrutiny of race- and sex-based admissions practices at colleges and universities, however, its implications extend beyond higher education.
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News BriefCFPB could run out of money by fall, report says
The Trump administration declawed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from the very beginning of his second term. It now appears the agency might be running out of money.