No. of Recommendations: 5
Public Citizen: "The Trump administration has been open — downright brazen, in fact — about its fixation on abolishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
Congress established the CFPB after the 2008 financial crisis to protect the American people from wrongful or unfair conduct by Big Banks and other giant financial institutions. The bureau has recovered billions and billions for everyday Americans, and it has helped bring more fairness and transparency to the financial marketplace.
The regime — specifically the man Trump put in charge of the CFPB, Project 2025 architect Russell Vought — has tried to shutter the bureau by refusing to request funding for it as mandated by law.
We sued, and the judge just granted our motion for summary judgment — meaning he ruled in our favor and ordered that funding be requested as required by law.
In his ruling, the judge said the administration “acted arbitrarily, capriciously, and contrary to law.”
The judge also said that Vought’s scheme to defund the CFPB violates Congress’s clear intention to insulate the bureau from exactly the kind of “transparent display of partisanship” the regime was trying to get away with.
Public Citizen was proud to play a role in creating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 15 years ago.
And we are proud to score this significant legal victory in defense of the CFPB now.
We don’t yet know whether the other side will appeal, but we are prepared to fight as long as it takes.
Imagine TwaT learned of this swatting on his cellphone as he sat in the SCOTUS hearing birthright hearing... shat himself...hence his sudden departure from the courtroom.
