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...

You can log your own public comment at the URL here: bsky.app/profile/amel...

If the Trump Administration can't delete the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau entirely, the next tactic is to delete the parts of it that make the Board useful

The CFPB's complaint portal has been an incredible source of relief for consumers. In 2024, people got $93 million in relief *just by filing complaints.* Now the agency is looking for excuses to scale it back.

It's almost as though fraudsters and scammers heard the CFPB and FTC have been kneecapped.

Terry's experience should be an anomalous horror story, not business as normal: bsky.app/profile/warr... Save the CFPB to protect consumers against rampant fraud!

Americans lost $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024 and the Trump admin is (checks notes) ah yes, trying to kneecap the two federal watchdogs best positioned to stop it.

Washington Post Ed Board: “[The Trump administration is] disappearing an agency that plays a crucial role in protecting the economy.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

During Trump's CFPB Director nomination hearing, it broke that the agency is dropping lawsuits against companies accused of cheating American families out of their money. This wasn't a coincidence. It shows exactly who is in charge right now: Elon Musk.

New report on how Trump and Musk's illegal attacks on the CFPB are harming servicemembers: "For the military community, crippling the CFPB is a callous withdrawal of key safeguards for servicemembers’ finances." consumerfed.org/reports/trum...

Today at noon!

🚨Trump is surrendering military servicemembers to financial abuse. Every day the #CFPB is closed is another day that shady companies can cheat military families without consequences. The CFPB was created to help servicemembers - not abandon them. t.co/3kLkPEXeFt @savecfpb.bsky.social

Russell Vought "endorsed a lending platform that has faced a litany of lawsuits that claimed the company preyed on and lied to people seeking short-term, interest-free loans." Super coincidentally, Vought is also dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. us.cnn.com/2025/02/25/b...

“The Trump administration’s apparent vision for economic populism is coming into focus:… a dissolution of consumer safeguards reviled by many wealthy Republican donors and politicians.”

“Our job is pretty simple: We’re here to help everyday people when they’ve been cheated, defrauded, or stolen from by big banks and corporations.” - Illegally fired CFPB tech expert, Nick Hand thephiladelphiacitizen-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/thephila...

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