JFK pushed consumer rights to the top of the national agenda in 1962, leading to a raft of new laws offering new protections. But without enforcement, such rights are meaningless.
CFPB interim director Mick Mulvaney has brought the bureau to a near-standstill.
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The president recently nominated a new permanent director to take over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. With the CFPB doing a fraction of the work it did under Obama, what kind of agency will she lead?
Some worry Mick Mulvaney is putting banks before consumers as head of the CFPB.
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Mick Mulvaney has only been in charge of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for two months, but he’s already made many decisions that will leave consumers worse off.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray, center, plans to step down at the end of the month.
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The decision by the bureau’s founding director to step down this month offers Republicans and the Trump administration a chance to finally gut the bureau they’ve long despised.
Republicans have been opposed to the CFPB since it was created.
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Republican efforts to kill a rule designed to make it easier for people to sue banks are a reminder of why it’s so important to have a government agency that protects consumers.
Republicans have been opposed to the CFPB since it was created.
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Republicans are hoping to eliminate or at least defang the only federal agency tasked solely with protecting consumers from financial abuses. What would we miss if they succeed?