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Federal Financial Watchdog Ordered to Cease Activity
https://www.nytimes.com ^ | Feb. 8, 2025 Updated Feb. 9, 2025 | Ryan Mac and Stacy Cowley

Posted on 02/09/2025 8:21:59 AM PST by Enterprise

Employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were instructed to cease “all supervision and examination activity” and “all stakeholder engagement,” effectively stopping the agency’s operations, in an email from the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, on Saturday evening.

Mr. Vought, who was confirmed this week to lead the Office of Management and Budget, was on Friday named acting director of the consumer protection bureau, the federal government’s financial industry watchdog. In his email to staff on Saturday, he reaffirmed earlier instructions from the previous acting director, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who ordered last week that staff should not issue any new rules or guidance and cease all investigations.

“As acting director, I am committed to implementing the president’s policies, consistent with the law, and acting as a faithful steward of the bureau’s resources,” Mr. Vought wrote in the email, which was obtained by The New York Times.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cfpb; corrupt; debanking; opchokepoint; operationchokepoint; russellvought; tyranny; vought; warren
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1 posted on 02/09/2025 8:21:59 AM PST by Enterprise
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To: Enterprise

Its not a “financial watchdog”, its Elizabeth Warren’s Star Chamber.


2 posted on 02/09/2025 8:24:00 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Squaw growling like angry brother fox today because father flying eagle dropped a load on her.


3 posted on 02/09/2025 8:28:27 AM PST by Enterprise (These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: Enterprise

The CFPB should never have existed.

There were regulators working off of actual laws that had processes to follow. The CFPB made up everything they did, and had funding to push whatever they wanted—with ZERO oversight.

It is corrupt to its bones.


4 posted on 02/09/2025 8:29:08 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Enterprise

Complete
Finish off
Pocohantas’s
Baby


5 posted on 02/09/2025 8:31:33 AM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: Enterprise
Where does the Constitution enumerate a power to the federal gov't to regulate consumer affairs?

Answer: NOWHERE

NUKE THE CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) NOW!!!

6 posted on 02/09/2025 8:32:10 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Enterprise

No nyt paywall?


7 posted on 02/09/2025 8:33:51 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Donald John Trump. First man to be Elected to the Presidency THREE times since FDR.)
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To: bigbob

The fake Indian squaw with the real Big Pharma contributions is really going to be on the warpath now.


8 posted on 02/09/2025 8:34:37 AM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Enterprise

It’s Dead Jim


9 posted on 02/09/2025 8:36:50 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: ConservativeMind

The CFPB should never have existed.
It is corrupt to its bones.
True


10 posted on 02/09/2025 8:37:27 AM PST by griswold3 (Truth Beauty and Goodness)
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To: Jim W N

Is it’s site still there , gone or just shut down ?


11 posted on 02/09/2025 8:39:36 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: butlerweave

Hopefully shut down forever.


12 posted on 02/09/2025 8:48:01 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Jim W N

Just wait until Warren sobers up and finds out ,LOL


13 posted on 02/09/2025 9:03:22 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Enterprise

“That was bad enough. But under the leadership of Barack Obama appointee Richard Cordray, the bureau decided that being “above politics” also meant that it could be “above the law.”
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Thus it was, for example, that the CFPB set out to regulate automobile dealerships, even though it was explicitly prohibited — in statute — from doing so.
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And that it started engaging in “regulation by enforcement”: Filing lawsuits against financial service providers for past practices as a means of announcing that something that had been permissible would be illegal going forward.
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And its participation in various manifestations of Operation Chokepoint, whereby banks were discouraged from providing services to entirely legal businesses — pawn shops and gun manufacturers, for example — because Democrats simply didn’t like them.”
—— Mike Mulvaney, NY Post


14 posted on 02/09/2025 9:30:23 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: Enterprise

Waiting for ANOTHER CORRUPT JUDGE TO STOP VOUGHT!!


15 posted on 02/09/2025 9:42:58 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

Shouldn’t be long now. Lieawatha is probably sending smoke signals as we speak.


16 posted on 02/09/2025 9:50:16 AM PST by Enterprise (These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: Enterprise

She is on the WARPATH!


17 posted on 02/09/2025 9:50:55 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: piasa

The law is what the left says it is. And they operate by Catch-22. We can do anything we want if you can’t stop us.


18 posted on 02/09/2025 9:52:10 AM PST by Enterprise (These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: Enterprise
Musk's newest DOGE team member:


19 posted on 02/09/2025 11:12:56 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: Enterprise
instructed to cease “all supervision and examination activity” and “all stakeholder engagement,”

You are redundant - DOGE has got it.

20 posted on 02/09/2025 11:18:11 AM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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