A joint resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to "Defining Larger Participants of a Market for General-Use Digital Consumer Payment Applications".

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SJRES 28 is a constitutional exercise of congressional legislative and oversight power that nullifies an expanded CFPB supervisory rule over large digital payment apps. It rests on Article I commerce and oversight authority, enacted through proper bicameralism and presentment, infringes no Bill of Rights protection, expands individual economic liberty, returns power downward, and takes no property or due process. Analysis by SI finds no constitutional defect.

• ✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
  Congress has explicit authority to disapprove executive agency rules through legislation. Authority rests in Article I, Section 1 vesting legislative power in Congress, Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 over interstate commerce which payment apps conduct, and Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 to make laws necessary and proper for overseeing agencies Congress created. Passage followed Article I, Section…
• ✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
  The resolution infringes no right in Amendments 1-10. It does not restrict speech, religion, press, assembly under the First Amendment, does not touch Second, Third, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, or Eighth Amendment protections, and does not create any search, seizure, or compelled testimony. By removing expanded CFPB supervisory authority over nonbank payment app transaction data, it reduces rather tha…
• ✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
  The resolution restricts no person, property, labor, speech, or belief. It removes a federal supervisory expansion over general-use digital payment applications, thereby reducing compliance burdens on nonbank providers and surveillance exposure for users. The burden on government to justify expanded supervision is enforced here by Congress withholding that justification, leaving individual economi…
• ✓ Passes · Decentralization
  Applying the four-question test under the Tenth Amendment: (1) individuals cannot alone supervise large payment markets, (2) local counties cannot supervise interstate payment networks, (3) states can handle consumer-protection supervision under their own financial and deceptive-practice laws without federal involvement, (4) this action does NOT consolidate upward - it reverses federal consolidati…
• ✓ Passes · Due process and takings
  No deprivation of life, liberty, or property without due process under the Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment Section 1, and no taking without just compensation. The resolution imposes no fine, forfeiture, license revocation, or property seizure, and provides full procedural regularity through bicameralism and presentment under Article I, Section 7, Clause 2, with public notice via Public La…

Sources: Congress.gov: SJRES 28 summary