Created at the behest of Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has the ostensible goal of protecting people from bad actors and practices in the financial marketplace.
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has been a prominent voice in the Democratic Senate caucus. The consumer rights proponents recently went viral for her tough questions to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his confirmation hearing for Health and Human Services Secretary.
The director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, has been waiting for a phone call, letter, email, text — anything, really — from the Trump administration to say if he’s getting fired.
As the Trump administration prepared to take power in Washington, D.C., the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ... crisis and the Great Recession. Elizabeth Warren was one of the architects ...
The Biden nominee is trying to pose as a friend of the little guy to keep his job under Trump.
Chopra is a somewhat surprising person from the Biden administration to keep his job so far. Republicans have long been opponents of the CFPB as an agency.
In a lengthy letter to the chair of DOGE, billionaire Elon Musk, that was first reported by Time , Warren highlighted that "you have publicly called for sizable cuts in funding—from $500 billion in annual spending to 'at least' $2 trillion in cuts to federal spending—although recently, you said you may not actually be able to meet that goal."
The Federal Reserve kicked off its second Trump era right where it left off: Doing exactly what it wanted to do, ignoring President Donald Trump’s demands that it lower rates.
The Federal Reserve kicked off its second Trump era right where it left off: Doing exactly what it wanted to do, ignoring President Donald Trump’s demands that it lower rates.
The CFPB—tasked to protect consumers from unfair banking practices—was created by Democrats in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
On Thursday, State Rep. Brent Money (HD-2) filed House Bill 2197 meant to provide equal protection under the law to pre-born babies in Texas. More than a dozen House colleagues co-authored the bill within the first hour of filing.
A trio of high-profile lawsuits issued at the tail end of the Biden administration indicate that the agency cares more about pursuing a political agenda than it does about helping American consumers.