The results of yesterday’s presidential election pose serious challenges for low-income consumers, consumer advocates, and everyone in the fight for racial and economic justice.
The first Trump administration undermined core consumer protections and attacked policies that promoted racial and economic justice. Working with our broad community of allies and partner organizations, we were effective in stopping or slowing many of these attacks.
As we await the specifics of the challenges ahead, it’s an important moment to restate and recommit ourselves as an organization and a community to our core values: fighting for racial equity and economic justice. In this second term, we will redouble our efforts to partner with civil rights and grassroots organizations to defend consumer rights. We commit to leading and joining coalition efforts to defend consumer protections, ensure economic fairness, fight fraud, and protect consumers, families, and communities.
The common thread running through all our work is our commitment to pursuing policies and programs that support consumers who have been historically and economically marginalized. We will not stray from this commitment no matter who is in the White House, in Congress, or in regulatory agencies.
As the federal landscape shifts, NCLC will seek opportunities at the state level to advance legislation, litigation, and regulation, promote model consumer protection laws, and strengthen state and local protections that can have profound positive impacts on consumers. We will join with our allies in using the courts to challenge overreaching or illegal actions by the new administration. And we will keep our eye on the long term and work to lay the groundwork for a broad racial and economic justice agenda.
These challenging times call for bold and creative thinking about how best to defend the rights and interests of the most vulnerable and marginalized in our society. No matter who holds power in Washington, we will always stand up for the rights of low-income consumers and hold policymakers accountable for their actions. On inauguration day, and every day, we will continue our fight for racial and economic equality and consumer justice for all.
– Richard Dubois, Executive Director
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