In advance of Russell Vought’s first-ever congressional testimony as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) scheduled for the week of July 13, 2026, a new poll found that, across the political spectrum, likely midterm voters approved of the CFPB, with four in five expressing support. Voters also supported restoring CFPB protections –
Across the country, Americans are experiencing an astonishing rise in financial scams and fraud. In the first year of the Trump Administration, regulatory agencies across the federal government received an unprecedented amount of complaints reporting instances of financial fraud and scams.
The Trump-Vought CFPB has permanently dismissed 23 of the Bureau’s public enforcement actions that were pending at the time Trump took office, pardoning egregious repeat offender banks (captured in this memo in red text) and corporations and sending the message that lawbreaking and corporate misconduct will be tolerated. Even more alarming, the Trump-Vought CFPB has
The newest poll from the bipartisan polling team Lake Research Partners and Chesapeake Beach Consulting shows that voters across the political spectrum are concerned about the cryptocurrency industry’s political influence and its impact in pushing policies that benefit the industry at the public’s expense.
This report tracks major bills and joint resolutions in this issue area with recorded votes on the House and Senate floor. During the first session of the 119th Congress, lawmakers voted on a set of measures that eroded consumer and investor protection, enabled cryptocurrency corruption, and provided giveaways to Wall Street and billionaires at the expense of families and communities.
In late May, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) under Trump-appointee and acting director Russell Vought launched a newly redesigned website that deprioritized consumer complaints and reframed the CFPB as a deregulatory agency rather than the nation’s only financial watchdog focused on protecting consumers in the market. As part of this overhaul, the Trump-Vought CFPB deleted the agency’s blog and removed all press releases prior to February 2025.