Throughout this week, the Washington Examiner’s Restoring America project will feature its latest series, “Reforming the Deep State: Reining in the Federal Bureaucracy.” We invited some of the best policy minds in the conservative movement to speak to the issues of what waste, fraud, abuse, and unaccountability exist throughout the federal government and what still needs to be done. To read more from this series, click here.

Banks are legally prohibited from discriminating in lending based on race and gender. But what stops them or their regulators from making politically biased decisions to drop an individual, family, or company in the name of reducing “reputational” risk? 

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