Progressive freshmen are joining with veteran lawmakers to try to shame the nation's biggest banks into taking a stand on some of the country’s most divisive issues
More than a decade after Wall Street's crash wrecked the global economy, House Democrats are threatening to stigmatize the nation's biggest banks again.
lenders into taking a stand on some of the country’s most divisive issues: climate change, gun violence and immigration. "There's more than one way to skin a cat, and not everything has to be done through legislation explicitly," Ocasio-Cortez told POLITICO. “We can also use the tools that we have here to pressure change in other ways as well."The 2020 Election. The New Congress. The Mueller Investigation. Be in the Know.By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Under pressure from activists and now House Democrats, JPMorgan earlier this month announced it plans to cut ties to prison companies, and Wells Fargo said it is doing the same.
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