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Trump Fires CFPB Director Rohit Chopra, Announces Bessent as Successor
In a significant and highly anticipated move, President Donald Trump has fired Rohit Chopra, the Director of the Consumer ...
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President Trump fires Rohit Chopra as Director of the CFPB and appoints Treasury Secretary Bessent as acting director
Although many pundits speculated that President Trump would appoint Russell Vought as Acting Director once Vought is confirmed by the Senate to ...
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Breaking: Treasury Secretary Bessent Heads Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Immediately Orders Freeze of CFPB Activities
On Saturday, February 1, 2025, it was announced that President Donald Trump had removed Rohit Chopra as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). In a statement from the CFPB on ...
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Trump Appoints Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as Acting CFPB Director
President Donald Trump appointed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection ...
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Chopra’s parting shot: A CFPB blueprint for state-level enforcement with teeth
In one of the final reports by the CFPB issued under Rohit Chopra’s regime, the bureau outlines how state-level regulators can better protect consumers.
Bessent, as acting consumer bureau chief, pauses all rules and lawsuits
CFPB staff was told to refrain from issuing public communications, halt activities including rules and settlements and ...
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Treasury Secretary Bessent, tapped to run CFPB, orders staff to halt work
Staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were instructed by email to cease much of their work. Bessent, a wealthy ...