Please add your name to this petition to impeach Russell Vought. actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-... Why? Here are 10 reasons:

Today is Russell Vought’s birthday. He is a Christian Nationalist who wants to exclude people of other faiths & put civil servants like me in trauma. On his birthday, I hope he gets what he’s given and reaps what he has sown. Let’s urge Congress to impeach Vought! actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-...

Vought's doing more than just illegally dismantling the CFPB from within: he's attacking funding for cancer research, illegally hiding the ways in which he's withholding funds, destabilizing the country's scientific research infrastructure, and eliminating aid to children domestically and worldwide.

Amazing piece from E. Tammy Kim @newyorker.com Love to see Supervision getting a shout out for its "prophylactic audits" and Kim noting the CFPB "is the only federal entity with the power to supervise these “non-banks.”" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This is unacceptable. Also, enraging that the CFPB is now warning consumers AGAINST filing a complaint with them until they've tried (and failed) with the credit bureaus. Difficult to see the CFPB have become so anti-consumer.

There are $21 billion reasons to love the CFPB. That’s the amount of relief it has delivered to people cheated by predatory lenders. Congress – it is time to show working people some love and restore CFPB funding. http://bit.ly/lovecfpb #CFPBMyValentine

The CFPB still stands a year after the Trump admin tried to delete it, thanks to its staff and advocates. But, its ability to protect workers is hanging by a thread. Demand Congress show consumer protection some love this Valentine’s Day. bit.ly/lovecfpb #CFPBMyValentine

"Trump’s attempt to sideline the CFPB has cost families billions of dollars over the last year alone."

Love looks like protecting veterans and hardworking families from predatory scams. Love looks like stopping discriminatory lending. This Valentine’s Day, let’s demand lawmakers stand with everyday people. Demand Congress restore CFPB funding bit.ly/lovecfpb #CFPBMyValentine

CFPB workers are still here fighting for consumer protections. But we need your help to restore funding to your CFPB. Help us protect veterans, families and working people everywhere by telling Congress to restore CFPB funding! #CFPBMyValentine

One year ago, the Trump Administration and DOGE attempted to dismantle the CFPB in the quiet of the night, firing mass amounts of dedicated consumer protection experts and halting critical work that protects everyday people. #CFPBmyValentine

Despite the skyrocketing cost of our energy bills, groceries, and housing, the federal agency that protects people's money has been gagged from within. The Acting Director, Russell Vought, has given money back to big banks and law breakers, stopped supervising for harm, & stopped protecting consumer

Yesterday, members of Congress, nonprofits, and the CFPB Union came together to host a press conference on the one year anniversary of DOGE entering CFPB HQ: www.youtube.com/live/JUnEBdo...

Congress asked the Gov't Accountability Office to review the effect of recent stop-work orders, workforce reductions, contract terminations, and other related actions on CFPB’s ability to fulfill its statutorily mandated functions. GAO released their report on the reorg efforts as of August 2025

The CFPB is still here and Acting Director Vought is still not allowing its employees to protect consumers.

Wonder what data brokering powers price gouging, dynamic pricing, and seller's inflation? Without the CFPB modernizing the implementation of FCRA, we may never know!

As always, if consumers want to tell the story of how they were helped, make sure you're reaching out to legitimate journalists. @propublica.org (bsky.app/profile/prop...) has been doing great work covering this admin's attempts to throw the CFPB into the woodchipper

The CFPB Union @nteu335.bsky.social has been working hard to get the agency's funding restored, and to get Congress to rein in Vought's unlawful attempt to shut the agency down.

Leading up to the one year anniversary of Trump and Vought's attempt to shut the agency down (which has been thwarted *so far*!)- we want to highlight consumers who were actually (!) helped (!) by a fed gov't agency. 👇

It's almost like Russell Vought, the Acting Director of the CFPB, doesn't know anything about the laws the CFPB enforces. Even industry most critical of fair lending laws and enforcement know this opinion piece is riddled with statements that are factually inaccurate: www.wsj.com/opinion/dei-...

These failures happened concurrently with Elon Musk's fork email and purges of probationary employees.

We've been inundated with myriad horrors and violence for almost a year from this admin, but we still remember where it started: with Elon Musk sending DOGE into USAID to shut it down. Then they stole SSA data en route to the CFPB where they planned to let corporations rip people ppl off unchecked

Coming up on the one year anniversary of CFPB workers being locked out of their headquarters, literally blocked from protecting consumers by Trump's Acting Director, Russell Vought.

Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"

"Julia Barnard is sadly not the first, or likely the last, public servant to face cruel and unjustified personal attacks from Vought’s CFPB. ... Julia and the hundreds of other workers who have left the CFPB under Vought are a huge loss for the public we serve."

NEW: An original student debt report at the CFPB exposed loan servicers declining to answer consumer complaints + two private equity firms doing college tuition price-fixing + a giant default crisis. Trump-CFPB didn't like the report. So they tried to erase it. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

It's almost as though the CFPB is entirely staffed by people who desperately want to protect consumers from financial harm, and it looks a lot like Trump and Vought are trying really hard to allow corporations to steal from consumers. 🤔

Trump is going to start garnishing borrower’s paychecks next month so Trump’s CFPB (Russell Vought) deleted information on pathways out of default and options for loan cancellation.

Watchdog agency blindfolded, neutered

A CFPB report found that student loan companies have become less responsive to complaints from borrowers. But key sections of the report, including those covering pathways out of default, were missing! #DialBeforeYouFile #ProtectConsumers @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Let's break down some numbers here 👇 5 million: Borrowers currently in default on federal student loans 10-15 million: Projected number of borrowers who could fall into default $1.7 trillion: Total federal student loan debt

Russell Vought was appointed Acting Director and immediately ordered all CFPB employees to cease ALL WORK. He also illegally fired ppl, cut benefits, and forgave corporate penalties. All that work and CFPB workers continue to demand the right to return to their jobs and protect people's money!

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Coming up on the one year anniversary of CFPB workers being locked out of their headquarters, literally blocked from protecting consumers by Trump's Acting Director, Russell Vought.

Opinion and order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“It appears that defendants’ new understanding of “combined earnings” is an unsupported and transparent attempt to starve the CPFB of funding and yet another attempt to achieve the very end the Court’s injunction was put in place to prevent."

When Bianca Jones, a 33-year-old special education teacher in Memphis, Tennessee, decided a couple of years ago that she wanted to buy a house, she started digging into her Experian credit report. She was shocked by what she found. #stopvought #savecfpb www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

In an age when it's so hard to get customer service AND the government seems so disconnected from what people want and need- WHY would the CFPB try to cut down on of the federal government's most impactful consumer features?! bsky.app/profile/alex...

The CFPB's complaint portal got $93 million back to consumers *just by filing complaints.* File a comment telling the CFPB how great the complaint portal and database are. And tell them the only changes should be further improvements and MORE staffing.

CFPB complaints light fires under companies trying to slow roll you. We lost our Toyota in a flash flood. Insurance covered it, sent the payoff to Toyota's Finance Bank. Toyota screwed around, said it wasn't received, messed with our credit. We filed w/CFPB and POOF, things sorted in a day or so.

Trump and Vought turn their backs on military families again. No surprise, but it just hurts every time the CFPB lets companies illegally bilk people who serve our country. Read more in this great blog by @consumerfed.bsky.social's Erin Witte #stopvought #savecfpb consumerfed.org/trumps-cfpb-...

The CFPB's complaint portal got $93 million back to consumers *just by filing complaints.* File a comment telling the CFPB how great the complaint portal and database are. And tell them the only changes should be further improvements and MORE staffing.

"Filing Complaint with the CFPB Really Works!" - a consumer on r/creditcards www.reddit.com/r/CreditCard...

These aren't cherry picked examples. The consumer complaint portal is almost like the United States' customer service hotline for their financial needs. Take it from this r/LifeProTip post: www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTip...

Think these anecdotes are anomalous? Well this former bank employee says CFPB complaints were a fast track to customers getting the attention they needed: bsky.app/profile/what...

Let's not forget why the CFPB was created: BECAUSE ALMOST 6 MILLION FAMILIES LOST THEIR HOMES TO FORECLOSURE. The CFPB helped address this person's needs w/r/t foreclosure: bsky.app/profile/mrsw...

Sometimes the banks are being *seriously annoying* and WILL NOT help. Like when the CFPB complaint portal helped this person: bsky.app/profile/pcas...

Sometimes banks aren't even acting maliciously, they just make a mistake but don't have the customer service bandwidth to fix it. Like this person who the CFPB complaint helped resolve in a few days: bsky.app/profile/choc...