Created at the behest of Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has the ostensible goal of protecting people from bad actors and practices in the financial marketplace.

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has been a prominent voice in the Democratic Senate caucus. The consumer rights proponents recently went viral for her tough questions to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his confirmation hearing for Health and Human Services Secretary.

President Donald Trump has been in office for five days now and has yet to fire Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra amid calls from Wall Street for a shake-up. Chopra, 42, is a seemingly surprising person from the Biden administration to keep his job for so long.

WASHINGTON — The director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ... He's an ally of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., one of President Donald Trump’s favorite targets.

The director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, has been waiting for a phone call, letter, email, text — anything, really — from the Trump administration to say if he’s getting fired.

CNN's Kaitlan Collins accused Donald Trump's administration of violating the law during a fiery exchange with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt during Tuesday's briefing.

The CFPB—tasked to protect consumers from unfair banking practices—was created by Democrats in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.

Readers consider the bureau’s policies under Rohit Chopra.

How will Donald Trump solve the affordability crisis that felled Joe Biden ’s presidency? The plan is fairly straightforward: Deregulation, expanding energy production and brow-beating Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell into reducing borrowing costs. That’s much easier said than done.

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Complaints about unfair and unexplained closures are rising. Banks say they never close accounts for political reasons.