Congressional Democrats are becoming increasingly concerned about the administrative peril facing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
No one’s been kidding themselves about the CFPB’s limited activities under GOP control, and we’ve written elsewhere about the shifting Republican strategy of reducing the CFPB’s funding.
But after this week – as the Trump administration moved to swiftly kneecap the United States Agency for International Development – it’s becoming less clear that Congress will need to lift a finger to truly imperil the agency.