Politico: How gutting the CFPB clashes with affordability concerns

Here. The piece says that eliminating the CFPB:

* * *  put[s] the agency at odds with the Trump administration’s favorite way to counter the souring mood on the economy: offering cold, hard cash (think of “warrior checks” for service members and “Trump accounts” for babies).

As of October, the bureau has dropped 22 pending enforcement actions against banks and lenders; many of the cases were dropped “with prejudice,” meaning the agency is unlikely to pursue the cases in the future, according to the Consumer Federation of America and Protect Borrowers. That means the administration potentially forfeited an estimated $3 billion of direct payments to consumers, according to the advocacy groups.

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