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Tim Scott

Tim Scott

Chairman, Senate Banking Committee

Appears in 2 stories

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Trump's debanking war with Wall Street

Rule Changes

Leading congressional effort to ban reputational risk standards

Donald Trump banked with JPMorgan Chase for decades. Seven weeks after the January 6 Capitol attack, the bank gave him 60 days to move hundreds of millions of dollars elsewhere. Now, as a sitting president, Trump is suing America's largest bank and its CEO for $5 billion, alleging political discrimination.

Updated Jan 25

Netflix’s $72 billion bid for Warner Bros. reshapes the streaming power map

Money Moves

New political critic urging DOJ/FTC to scrutinize and potentially block the merger

After Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery announced their $72 billion equity-value agreement on December 5, the transaction quickly became a live bidding contest and a regulatory test case. On December 8, Paramount Skydance launched an unsolicited all-cash tender offer for all of WBD at $30 per share, seeking to derail the Netflix deal and keep the company intact (including the networks slated for the Discovery Global spin-off). Within days, Netflix began a coordinated shareholder push backing its signed merger agreement and emphasizing regulatory execution, while WBD prepared formal filings to respond to the tender offer.

Updated Dec 11, 2025