The cost to overdraw a bank account could drop to as little as $3 under a proposal announced by the White House, the latest effort by the Biden administration to combat fees it says pose an unnecessary burden on American consumers, particularly those living paycheck to paycheck.

The change could potentially eliminate billions of dollars in fee revenue for the nation’s biggest banks, which were gearing up for a battle even before Wednesday’s announcement. Exactly how much revenue depends on which version of the new regulation is adopted.

Banks charge a customer an overdraft fee if their bank account balance falls below zero. Overdraft started as a courtesy offered to some customers when paper checks used to take days to clear, but proliferated thanks to the growing popularity of debit cards.

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    Trump got us “free cash” and virus test kits. Bush got us “free cash”.

    Obama got us crappy healthcare. Which he stole from Republcain Mitt Romney cause Obamacare is literally Republicans dream healthcare system.

    Nobody remembers the starting circumstances of the Democratic presidents brought in to clean up Republican messes.

    From my interactions with co-workers, it can be that simple. And also the trans trans trans are coming to steal your kids and wife. Diabolical

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      yeah in particular obama was just getting the economy going at the end of his term by slowly raising interest rates and it was trump that railed for lower interest rates to overheat the economy just before covid and is the main reason rates had to be raised at break neck pace under biden. Democrats are burdened with stabilizing the situations that republicans have intentionally destabilized. Like right now they will only allow 2 month budget extensions keeping us on the edge of shutdown constantly. That is no way to run a government.

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      Fuck Lieberman for ruining Obamacare. It could have been so much more

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        The Democrats always have a scapegoat to explain why they just couldn’t get [insert leftist goal] done.

        It’s always a lie, or rather, it’s not the truth. The Democrats are neoliberals, and there will always be that one bad democrat who prevented [insert leftist goal], because they don’t want to, but benefit from their voters believing they do.

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          You can keep your tinfoil hat on but the truth is that Democrats are on average a whole fuck of a lot better. Lieberman was never the type of Democrat you’re thinking of. He’s now trying to get Manchin to run under the No Labels pack so Trump can be king and we can truly see what climate change looks like if we do nothing at all to curb its effects.

          I’ll just be over here telling you all “told you so” when everything you criticize Biden of becomes 10x worse under a true monster like Trump

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            What you’re saying has nothing to do with what I’m saying.

            Yes, the Democrats are better then Trump. How does that invalidate what I said?

            You can vote for them, and that might make sense. Just do it with your eyes open, because believing in them for anything other then “not being Trump” is a fools errand.

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              Above you is the kind of commenter I always end up seeing these kinds of threads where someone validly points out how “somebody farting on our plate is bad” and instead of agreeing with you, they have to gleefully scold you screeching “well do you want the guy who shits on your plate instead!?”

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                Are you seriously saying that you’d rather have shit on your plate than three day old diarrhea covered with mold spots?

                Everyone knows the Shit-on-a-Plate party really seriously wants universal healthcare, if only their wasn’t that one outlier member who ruined it for everyone.

                The only thing I can’t figure out is how come there’s always an outlier or two that prevent the good policies from being enacted?

                It’s really weird, one gets voted out, but another one always takes their place…it’s a real mystery.