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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Martin Gruenberg is out amid scandals over the agency’s toxic environment. A tardy, though welcome, demand for his resignation came Monday from Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown (D-OH). The problem is that Gruenberg won’t leave his post until his replacement is named. This is a convenient way to protect the destructive Biden regulatory banking agenda.

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Today, Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) and Independent Women’s Voice (IWV) call for the immediate removal of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Chairman Martin Gruenberg after Gruenberg correctly announced his resignation. Carrie Sheffield, senior policy analyst at IWF noted: 
“While it was a step in the right direction for Gruenberg to tender his resignation, it appears this is merely a performative gesture as it could take months while he remains in place until his successor. Victims of abuse should not be trapped in an environment with their abuser or those who enable the abuse. Gruenberg must go today, and President Biden must show leadership toward this end. Chairman Brown and all members of Congress must urge Gruenberg to step aside immediately.”
 

Inflation and Unaffordability Cramped Many Households’ Memorial Weekend Celebrations
We look forward to the start of summer activities: traveling, cookouts, beach vacations, road trips, and pool parties. For yet another year, prices are markedly higher on summer staples, celebrations, and travel. [keep reading]

‘Support All Women’ Means Including Mothers
Many critics of Butker’s speech have only grievances with the strawman argument they have created. As a Gen Z woman, I have multiple degrees, a successful entrepreneurial business, and a full-time career. Yet, my accomplishments do not diminish my desire to one day be a mother. [keep reading]

We’re both part of the so-called sandwich generation: We’re mothers raising young children, and we also have aging parents and in-laws. President Biden claims he wants to help people like us. His administration, however, has threatened to take away our main source of childcare by proposing a regulation that could double the cost of hosting an au pair, a young foreign national brought to the U.S. to work as a nanny.

If Mr. Biden wants to help families like ours balance our home and professional lives, he should expand the program to include senior care—not threaten to destroy it.

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Fact Check: Is High Inflation Due to Corporate Greed?

“The Biden administration’s attempts to serve its political allies is a shortsighted strategy that harms workers more than it helps labor unions.These actions have stalled economic growth and disadvantaged American workers – including the millions who choose to not unionize.” 

– U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee on his new report about the Biden Administration weaponizing the federal government to aid unions

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