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Elon Musk’s DOGE team entered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau headquarters on Friday – and staffers are pissed off!“Elon Musk’s team on Friday entered the headquarters of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday, sources tell us,” Politico reported.According to Politico, at least 3 of Elon Musk’s DOGE workers are now “senior advisors” in the staff directory at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.“Three Musk allies are listed as “senior advisers” in the staff directory at the CFPB now.” Politico reported.“CFBP staff is “mad as hell.”” the reporter added.Elon Musk’s team on Friday entered the headquarters of the Consumer Financial Protection...

The bureaucratic empire that Rohit Chopra built at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was destined to crumble under the weight of its own excesses. From the moment he took the helm, Chopra ruled the agency as an unaccountable overlord, brandishing the regulatory hammer to bludgeon financial institutions into compliance with a progressive economic agenda. His tenure was a textbook case of administrative state overreach—punishing businesses, stifling competition, and reducing consumer choice in the name of “protection.” Trump, never one to tolerate bureaucratic tyranny, did what any president committed to free markets and limited government would do: he fired him....

Rohit Chopra, who led the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, was known for his aggressive enforcement and expansion of consumer protection laws.The director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, was fired on Saturday, prematurely ending a five-year term that was scheduled to run through late 2026. “With so much power concentrated in the hands of a few, agencies like the C.F.P.B. have never been more critical,” Mr. Chopra wrote in a letter he posted on social media announcing his departure. Mr. Chopra expected to be fired immediately after President Trump took office, but he improbably hung on for nearly...

You love to see it.President Trump fired Rohit Chopra, the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Saturday.Rohit Chopra received an email Saturday morning informing him that he had been terminated, CNN reported. On Saturday Chopra announced he was leaving the post. “This letter confirms that my term as CFPB Director has concluded. I know the CFPB is ready to work with you and the next confirmed Director, and we have a great deal of energy to ensure continued success,” Rohit Chopra said.It's been an honor serving as your @CFPB Director.Every day, Americans from across the country shared their...

The director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been fired by the Trump administration hours after an FBI purge saw agents who investigated the President 'escorted out.' Rohit Chopra acknowledged in a letter to have 'concluded' his term, according to a person familiar with his ousting, just hours after the President fired a cohort of FBI agents who worked on the Mar-a-Lago and January 6 investigations. 'I swore an oath to a five-year term, and I will keep serving that until I can pass the baton to someone else,' Chopra said in an interview this week, the New York...

Many Americans were surprised to recently see a coalition of the country’s most radical politicians — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Rep Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and Sen. Richard Blumentha l, D-Conn., to name a few — teaming up to introduce heavy-handed legislation against the peer-to-peer payment companies (like PayPal, Venmo, Zelle and CashApp) that have improved all our lives. Blumenthal even went so far as to dispatch a separate letter to the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) demanding an investigation into Zelle... The Biden administration brass, especially CFPB Director Rohit Chopra, have fought aggressively to convince the American...

NEW YORK (MainStreet)— The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Student Loan Ombudsman Rohit Chopra recently responded to those who asked the CFPB about the status of the $1 trillion that has already been borrowed to pay for college tuition. An August 5 article by Chopra paints a bleak portrait. Chopra found ...