The CFPB has returned $21 billion to 205 million consumers who were scammed at the hands of predatory banks. You can root out waste, fraud, and abuse... or you can eliminate the CFPB. But you can't do both.
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`What will they attack after this phase?
Can DoucheBalls shut us all down?
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Also made companies pay for monthly credit reporting for those that they took advantage of & fined the co’s enough to help offset their own departments costs.
I don’t use apple wallet, froze my credit reports and I deactivated starlink that Apple installed on our phones. People should begin to protect themselves
Musk is conveniently getting rid of the CFPB *before* he links up with Visa to have a payment system on X. Connect the dots. He's clearing the way for no oversight for himself. He's dismantling *our* government for his own profit.
You don't know for fact that CFPB acted properly on any of this. Show your proof.
All that exists is their own Nov report, but you don't know the results of any of it. That is what audits are for.
Possibly some red flags from other agencies upon receipt of the report?
I'll assume there are reasons to pause operations temporarily, and there's every indication CFPB will be leaned out and streamlined, but no indication it will be shut down.
Yeah, keep making your assumptions while the rest of us know without a shadow of a doubt that this is all due to the president & his big-money donors not wanting any protections for consumers…
Yeah, I must be totally making assumptions that the guy behind Trump University, Trump Charity, Trump NFTs & meme coin, etc. would want to eliminate consumer protections & I’m totally making assumptions that he put the co-author of Project 2025 in charge of the CFPB in order to destroy the bureau.
Indicative of the real welfare queens and terrorists you need to worry about, not someone from another country, they're right in your backyard, running multi-billion dollar corporations, and holding office.
Your oppression is their profession
If musk et al, honestly want to id & resolve govt spending fraud, he should have hired professional auditors, not baby hackers. And where's actual evidence for proof of fraud? We're supposed to just take his word for it? And no one can just pick & choose what they want to remove. All bogus bs.
They were set up to help people and Trump doesn’t want anyone helping people, unless it is helping get more tax breaks for the wealthy and big business. They are who he cares about. Also, shouldn’t Congress be the ones to dismantle any legally created agency? DOGE is not a legal agency, don’t obey.
You know what's great right now? The only agencies Trump is cutting right now are the ones that actually help his idiot base and the ones that stop him from doing it.
If you're really looking for waste fraud and abuse, you use forensic accountants, not programmers. He COULD put his crack team on designing software that makes it impossible to spoof phone numbers, which would prevent a lot of Medicare fraud alone. But he won't.
14 years ago I cheered happily to E. Warren’s thoughts on the CFPB but honestly I ended up quite unimpressed with dealing with emerging risks and transparency - largely without any teeth.
Do you think it’s coincidence the second he abolishes the CFPB that banks are all about to dive into crypto? Get ready to get fucked on a national level.
34 and president Musk don't WANT to root out waste, fraud and abuse. They want the ability to grift without consequences. I'm fucking sick of it and I want it stopped.
When has a conservative political movement ever been for law & order?
During McCarthyism? When they were lynching people or when they were burning witches? During the Crusades? Because conservatism is not science-based but is "faith"-based, it easily lends itself to cons & criminal enterprise.
“He’s not just looking at government efficiency,” said Adam Rust, director of financial services at the Consumer Federation of America, a conglomerate of nonprofits supporting strong regulations. “He’s clearing the way for his company to avoid regulation.”
That is the plan to remove any help/relief for the public and prevent scamming bytheBigBanks/Corporations.
When Robert's Supreme Court during Dubbya's reign allowed that"corporations are people too" that was another brick in this road to the dissolution of consumer protection and democracy
Mars can Fuck Off! Just give it a read & realize what, if possible it'll take & who will go, LMAO! Our grandkids, grandkids, and grandkids will NEVER see it. Exactly, spend the here you fools!
Real talk: Brian what was the most shocking waste of money that DOGE has uncovered in your opinion? Do you care that yours and my tax dollars were lit on fire and then congress squatted down and pissed on the ashes? Does the party allow you to comment on that kind of thing?
The CFPB also offers educational resources to help people understand the home buying process to teaching children about financial literacy. It is insane and criminal to try to demolish this agency.
This will -not- work, sadly. Democrats do not have the numbers to mount a successful action in this regard unless they’re joined by GOPers. Asking voters to sign on to an exercise in futility only leads them to defeatist attitude, refusing to sign onto an action that COULD succeed!
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I'd like to hear news commentators counter the Republican narrative of "CFPB charged banks 20 billion and who do you think pays for that? The customers/public"
with...
"Ya, where do you think the bank's got that money, and more importantly how (corruptly)?"
Imagine that? Trump scammed charities, including a pediatric cancer charity, and his foundation closed down. He scammed Trump U students and had to payback $25 million.
Can't imagine why he'd be against consumer protection? 🤔
Even the Tesla guy & his Pinto (aka Tesla car and truck deathtraps).
Republicans are okay with sanctioned fraud. That is fraud contributed by Republicans politicians and their donors, usually but not always against their own voting base.
Brian, the one word we have to stand behind through all of this and should be the slogan, "resist." Why any employee allows them access is crazy. Why DHS is standing next to them when they have zero security clearance is crazy. That needs to be investigated and actions taken. Focus the justice
...dept to make them comply with the law or get rid of some people in there breaking laws. You have to notice that the uniformed faces were mostly of color. That was by design. I bet the white ones are standing by the billionaire. This country was taken over by a few backroom meetings.
The CFPB saved me $5,000 when Synchrony Bank committed fraud against me. Without the CFPB most people would either need to get an attorney involved or more likely, eat the fraud.
He doesn’t care about anything other than enriching himself and eliminating anyone or anything that gets in his way. The CFPB would likely be an obstacle to the payment business he’s planning to launch.
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“He’s not just looking at government efficiency,” said Adam Rust, director of financial services at the Consumer Federation of America, a conglomerate of nonprofits supporting strong regulations. “He’s clearing the way for his company to avoid regulation.”
Republican MAGAts only want to talk about fraud, waste and abuse. If the 🍊💩 really wanted to fight corruption, he would not have fired the Inspectors General.
If they want to root out waste, fraud, & abuse their focus should entirely be on the Pentagon.
The DOD hasn't passed an audit in 33 years... 7 straight failed audits!!!
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DOGE looks a expenditures. They don't look (and aren't qualified to look) at return on those expenditures. They aren't even qualified to determine what most of the data they pull represents.
Republicans; My word is the only word and I will talk any crap I want if it makes me money.
If you don't like it, tough, cause I am going to do it again tomorrow.
There are 3 crossover districts in the House held by Republicans (but won by Harris for president)--NE-2; NY-17; and PA-1. We need to be lobbying these reps. to break with the chaos of the GOP & support a motion to vacate the SOTH. Then join Dems in voting for Hakeem Jeffries. NOW! No time to lose!
People need to start asking tRump and Musk, WHERE'S THE BEEF? Show us that more than $100 Billion in fraud you have claimed to have found! Show us this 150 year old SS recipient! No more talking in generalities, we want specific proof to back up every word the right-wing says, or dismiss it as lies!
What meeting ? Where ? When ? Attendees ? Details of the discussion ? Minutes ? Corroboration ? Just more unfounded BS intended to further the rape of our country.
If you can't keep up with the news, that's your problem, I'm not going to suffer a fool, or spoon feed a baby. The words came out of tRump's and Musk's mouth, so you find it! Get a teenager to show you how to find videos on YouTube and google search things!
Their IOWA CHRISTIAN MAGA DEFINITION OF FRAUD is different from CFPB's definition. Their definition is:Any money spent on Children's nutrition before and during school hours, Homeless shelters, Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, Airport Security, Bridge, Road safety unless they are in MAGA States.
Oh, you don't understand: waste, fraud, or abuse of OUR money doesn't concern them. Waste, fraud, or abuse of THEIR money is what's important, and anything that doesn't go to a tax cut from them is waste and fraud in their eyes.
That’s $21 billion taken from perfectly honest corporations, the most perfectly honest, best and brightest ever, that’s what they say. Trump’s thoughts, probably.
I’m one of those consumers. My bank got a little crazy with over draft fees. Now the organization that’s supposed to protect us is being closed. .Time to start keeping your savings under the mattress.
Democrats should learn from how Republicans fight for power. Democrats could have been the party rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse and publicly investigated the biggest fraud in history. But they chose to "look forward" and "be bipartisan" and "not relitigate the past." https://bsky.app/profile/rudell.bsky.social/post/3kmwdtsgegn2h
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It is difficult to see the plan to eliminate the CFPB as something other than an action to favor banks and credit card companies. What can an ordinary citizen do about it? One answer is join a credit union.
How to find one:
When someone steals your identity charges $10's of thousands using your credit. You now have no where to turn & little local corrupt judges literally place liens against your home and belongings. That's the agency rump just shut down the one that says no you can't make people pay debt of a thief.
The GOP has made it clear: they don’t work for you, they work for banks, billionaires, and scammers. The CFPB has returned $21B to consumers, but Republicans want to gut it. Why? Because protecting you was never their priority
I think you hit the nail on the head.It's always about covering their criminal asses and fuck everyone else. No concern for anyone in this nation of 350 million or the world. A game.
Lives mean nothing to sociopaths .And if Musk and pals get to become trillionaires that's a lovely bonus for them.
Strategy. That’s what they didn’t have in his first administration. He must have tossed half of those hundreds of “advisors” and now has a well-known monstrous strategists. Of course I could be off course.
Sorry, that’s what I was implying. But yes, the “architects” (aka billionaires and strategists) are all in high places right now, moved in and making themselves comfortable. They’re pretty satisfied with making us all hate each other and turning our country inside out. It’s so strange to me. Why?
There is NOT a “both sides” here. There r facts, legit evidence of consumer protection & 💵 saved vs lies & BS from GOP which doesn’t care if ppl r financially harmed as long as businesses giving them $$ r free to steal/cheat. See Rick Scott 4 lies.
Yeah. Duh.
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We must realize "cutting waste fraud and abuse" is inseparable from cutting ordinary people's benefits. This framing is simply a mythos for their eugenic policy.
In our existing benefits system, people are forced to live on the precipice already, and dedicate vast time and material resources to simply stay on. Look at the SSDI asset cap for one example.
These are already systems that dehumanize people, being made worse.
Exactly. It’s always Opposite Day or Projection Day with republicans. We have to follow their actions not their words. Still not going to watch news broadcasts because they dwell on words versus callout acts.
The CFPB must remain open, fully staffed and fully funded. They do good and important work on behalf of the people. They protect us from corrupt businesses.
This regime has no intention to root out fraud, waste, & abuse. The goal is chaos, destruction of democracy, and finally establishing an autocracy. It is not about the people, it is all about the king. The people were just useful idiots to install the king into power.
The chaos is intended to distract you from their financial fraud, & abuse of our system. Every dollar they intercept will go directly in their pockets.
As a financial person cfpb plays very crucial role in keeping the big banks in check without which the consumers will be left at the mercy of predatory banks!
Organized & with CPA's doing the work, not IT hackers .
Unless the goal was never to find fraud but capture funds that they could use to offset the 2 trillion dollar tax cut for the rich.but at this point Idont think that ever was the plan .It's eliminate the entire government all &social programs.
Narrator: It was clear to most, by that time, that Musk and his gang of technofascist hackers were not, in fact, rooting through federal bureaucracy to find waste, fraud, and abuse, but rather establishing a foothold within federal systems to waste tax payer money, commit fraud, and abuse enemies.
I want Republicans to tell me one reason why they are OK with Musk demolishing the CFPB. Do they understand that the reason why he's trying to kill it is because he made a deal with visa for X. He was about to be regulated by the CFPB, so he's trying to get rid of it! 🙄
Go figure. Musk got the FAA taken apart over fines for raining down flaming rocket parts. NLRB because he has tons of labor complaints. CFPB because he wants to add a pay platform on X and he would prefer nobody to tell him “You are not allowed to rob your clients.”
Hold GOP and MAGA accountable. Trump is killing people, destroying America's standing in the world!!! Besides this rush to install FASCISM, MAGA ignored what was killing families from COVID, and an armed assault to overthrow a Free and Fair Election!
I read it and I’m not seeing that. I saw nothing about your name for voting having to match your name on your birth certificate. I’m all for going after the GOP for this bill, but we should be straight about it.
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*laughs in predatory bank
This is why this should have been squashed under the Biden admin. while the good guys had some power.
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How easy is that?
Their whole purpose was to do exactly what you say you’re doing Musk!
All that exists is their own Nov report, but you don't know the results of any of it. That is what audits are for.
I'll assume there are reasons to pause operations temporarily, and there's every indication CFPB will be leaned out and streamlined, but no indication it will be shut down.
Your oppression is their profession
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During McCarthyism? When they were lynching people or when they were burning witches? During the Crusades? Because conservatism is not science-based but is "faith"-based, it easily lends itself to cons & criminal enterprise.
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Consequently, they need to be punished.
It is now a crime to investigate crime.
The wealthy are above the law.
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When Robert's Supreme Court during Dubbya's reign allowed that"corporations are people too" that was another brick in this road to the dissolution of consumer protection and democracy
almost as professionally as DJT
F'n soul shattering.
go to the knacker man , DJ Twump.
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Of course they don’t give two fs about waste, fraud, and abuse.
It’s a coup.
with...
"Ya, where do you think the bank's got that money, and more importantly how (corruptly)?"
Can't imagine why he'd be against consumer protection? 🤔
Even the Tesla guy & his Pinto (aka Tesla car and truck deathtraps).
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Just like the inspectors general. That was their job too 🤔
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Musk wanted X Money and CFPB started asking questions.
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The DOD hasn't passed an audit in 33 years... 7 straight failed audits!!!
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The crimes are safety nettting the poor
If you don't like it, tough, cause I am going to do it again tomorrow.
You can't do anything about it,
so I don't care.
The inmates are running the bank.
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Service members, students, everyday folks,
The CFPB shields them from financial hoaxes.
$21 billion back to you and me.
No wonder Musk wants it RIP.
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MAGAts: MORE MONEY! MORE MONEY! MORE MONEY!
CFPB gets $0.01 trillion and returns billions in refunds to consumers who were cheated.
MAGAts: SHUT THEM DOWN! SHUT THEM DOWN! SHUT THEM DOWN!
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Lives mean nothing to sociopaths .And if Musk and pals get to become trillionaires that's a lovely bonus for them.
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These are already systems that dehumanize people, being made worse.
There is a lot of deadwood in federal government, no doubt about it, but it should’ve been done in a more organized manner
And any guard rail to protect the American people is being decimated
Unless the goal was never to find fraud but capture funds that they could use to offset the 2 trillion dollar tax cut for the rich.but at this point Idont think that ever was the plan .It's eliminate the entire government all &social programs.
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