'BradCast' 10/4/2023 (Guest: Financial journalist David Dayen of The Prospect on the SCOTUS case to kill the CFPB)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 The corrupt House GOP is in shambles after far-right Republican members succeeded in their effort to oust Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House. As they fight over their next leader, Republican politicians and pundits immediately began blaming Democrats for the Republican coup. But House Republicans' epic failure and internal divisions are more evidence that the party is broken, and has been collapsing for years under the strain of its own corruption, dedication to an autocratic cult leader, and its own toxic mix of victimhood, grievance, entitlement and revenge. The Biden Administration announced another $9 billion of student loan debt relief, for a total of $127 billion in loan forgiveness for millions of borrowers. In the US Supreme Court, even the rightwing justices appeared to push back against a challenge brought by payday lenders to dismantle the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on wildly dubious grounds. Financial journalist DAVID DAYEN, Executive Editor of The American Prospect, explains what happened during oral arguments, why rightwingers have been trying to kill off the CFPB and its consumer protections since its inception, and how the case 'threatens practically every consumer financial transaction that is made in the country,' and much more."