The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all its work, effectively shutting down the agency that was created to protect consumers after the 2008 financial crisis and subprime mortgage-lending scandal.
lol welp. We’re seeing exactly how much that “rule” is worth right now. And unfortunately, it’s demonstrably worth less than the paper it’s written on.
This is a constitutional crisis, and a coup as well; it’s just that neither Congress or the SC is going to lift a fucking finger to do anything about it. Which is par for the course, if I’m honest.