Conservative legal group targets CFPB rule mandating race, sex data in home loans

Fox News ^ | 1/12/26 | Ashley Oliver

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FIRST ON FOX: A Trump-aligned legal group is urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to scrap its demographic reporting mandate, arguing that the rule allows lenders to consider the race and sex of mortgage applicants as part of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

America First Legal said in a petition, first reviewed by Fox News Digital, that the CFPB should encourage mortgage lenders to focus strictly on the creditworthiness of homebuyers. The CFPB’s Regulation C, which requires the lenders to track and report race and sex, is unconstitutional, the group argued.

"The disclosure of this information leaves applicants vulnerable to race- and sex-based discrimination by government and private actors in violation of federal civil rights law and the Constitution," an America First Legal representative wrote.

The petition comes as part of a broader effort by President Donald Trump to quash diversity, equity and inclusion, also known as DEI, in the public and private sectors. The petition aligns with an executive order Trump signed in April urging a "meritocracy and colorblind society." The order was aimed at agencies responsible for evaluating people’s credit.

DEI is a framework that companies, schools, government agencies and other entities have adopted to promote equal treatment for minorities, but conservatives have long argued its practices can be discriminatory by improperly extending preferential treatment to them.

America First Legal said Regulation C flies in the face of the administration’s sweeping efforts to root out DEI across industries. The group’s petition functions as a request to the CFPB to formally begin the process of eliminating the regulation.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: cfpb; data; legal; loans

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Let's go Brandon.

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Much of this kind of reporting on non-financial data about prospective loan applicants has been specifically prohibited for many years now, when the standards were changed to simply the ability to repay the loan and a history of reliability in past financial transactions, based on merit and not on affirmative action.

Now merit had been degraded to little significance, and some kind of “social justice” system has replaced it in almost every instance.

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“DEI is a framework that companies, schools, government agencies and other entities have adopted to promote equal treatment for minorities, “

Lie of the year and it is still January.