For fourteen years, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has kept everyday people safe from financial fraud and harm and held banks, payday lenders, and Big Tech firms accountable when they scammed and hurt people.
AFR shared maps and statistics with the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee prior to two hearings this month on the insurance crisis, which is compounded by climate change.
In its first 100 days, the Trump administration moved aggressively to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), leaving the public vulnerable to predation by Wall Street, Big Tech, and predatory lenders, and satisfying the financial industry’s desire to operate without oversight. Elon Musk declared war on the CFPB, and the Republican-majority in Congress has largely aligned with the administration’s efforts to tear apart the CFPB.
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AFR published a policy memo outlining how climate change represents an imminent financial and economic threat, including statistics around increasingly costly disasters, rising uninsured losses, eroding real estate values, ballooning consumer debt, and food price inflation.
With the U.S. House Financial Services Committee voting today to prevent a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule from lowering the price of overdraft fees at megabanks and with the Senate Banking Committee scheduled to vote tomorrow on a nominee for CFPB director, a new poll shows Americans strongly support the CFPB’s mission as well