{"id":11936,"date":"2022-11-04T02:59:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T02:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/04\/president-biden-announces-plans-to-tackle-junk-fees-including-concerts-airlines-and-more\/"},"modified":"2022-11-04T02:59:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T02:59:59","slug":"president-biden-proclaims-plans-to-sort-out-junk-charges-together-with-concert-events-airways-and-extra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/04\/president-biden-proclaims-plans-to-sort-out-junk-charges-together-with-concert-events-airways-and-extra\/","title":{"rendered":"President Biden proclaims plans to sort out &#8220;junk&#8221; charges, together with concert events, airways, and extra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>No one would have ever described the ticket-buying expertise as \u201cfun,\u201d however today it\u2019s extra tiresome and annoying than ever due to the existence of hidden charges, transaction charges, digital charges, and extra. These \u201cjunk\u201d charges have grow to be the purpose of a brand new crackdown by President Biden.<\/p>\n<p>These junk charges apply to extra than simply concert events, together with banks, airways, cable corporations and different industries, as nicely.<\/p>\n<p>Writes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/10\/26\/white-house-hammers-economic-issues-with-attack-on-junk-fees-two-weeks-out-from-election-day.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>CNBC<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>He cited processing charges for live performance tickets, \u201cresort fees\u201d at inns, \u201cexcessive\u201d bank card late charges, airline reserving charges and termination prices to maintain customers from switching cable or web plans as a few of the charges the administration is tackling.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At the White House Press Conference, President Biden was joined by Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Rohit Chopra and FTC Chair Lina Khan. CFPB already instituted new steerage directed at banks and shock overdraft charges, and the administration is \u201cjust getting started.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I do know hidden junk charges \u2013 like processing charges on live performance tickets \u2013 are a ache.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re unfair, misleading, and add up.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why, final week, I known as on my Administration to crack down on these charges and put that cash again in your pocket.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 President Biden (@POTUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1588199321568157697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] No one would have ever described the ticket-buying expertise as \u201cfun,\u201d however today it\u2019s extra tiresome and annoying than ever due to the existence of hidden charges, transaction charges, digital charges, and extra. These \u201cjunk\u201d charges have grow to be the purpose of a brand new crackdown by President Biden. These junk charges apply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}