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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Feb 11, 2025

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned over $21 billion to families cheated by Wall Street.

cnn.com
Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Feb 11, 2025

The CFPB is still the law. It’s still funded. It’s still ready to go.

motherjones.com
Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Feb 11, 2025

The CFPB was created by Congress, and Congress—not Elon Musk, not Donald Trump—is the only one that can shut it down.

motherjones.com
Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Feb 11, 2025

One possibility is that they’re looking for a way to distract Americans from their real plans, which are not what they promised, [which was] cutting costs for American families.

motherjones.com
Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Feb 11, 2025

Giant banks hated this agency from the first time I ever talked about it, and the reason is pretty straightforward: it bites into the profits they would make from cheating people.

motherjones.com
Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Feb 11, 2025

The CFPB is the cop on the beat to make sure that giant banks and sleazy fly-by-night lenders don’t cheat American families.

motherjones.com
Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Feb 11, 2025

There are now zero cops overseeing the $18 trillion consumer lending market. Zero cops.

cnn.com
Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Feb 11, 2025

The actions over the last few weeks have been incredibly bad for individual, everyday Americans, but incredibly good for Elon Musk’s pocketbook.

democracynow.org
Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Feb 11, 2025

Elon has got a problem: the financial cops. The CFPB is there to make sure that Elon’s new project can’t scam you or steal your sensitive personal data.

democracynow.org
Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Feb 11, 2025

Look, these damn billionaires are making their moves right out in the open.

democracynow.org
Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Feb 11, 2025

If you have a bank account, or credit card or mortgage or student loan, this is code red.

cbsnews.com
Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Feb 11, 2025

The doomsday that Americans fear in the 21st century isn't being vaporized by a nuclear bomb. It's the doomsday diagnosis of cancer, it's medical debt, it's housing payments or loan payments, it's grocery bills and heating bills.

commondreams.org
Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Feb 11, 2025

While American families struggle with skyrocketing healthcare costs and grocery bills, Republicans are gearing up to fork over another $150 billion to the military-industrial complex.

commondreams.org
Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Feb 11, 2025

We have seen this Republican playbook before. They claim we must cut spending on education, on health care like Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, on housing, on foreign aid, on climate solutions.

truthout.org
Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Feb 11, 2025

This bloated Pentagon budget does not make us safer.

truthout.org
Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Feb 11, 2025

Yes, I have a plan, and it’s already the law. The CFPB cannot be shut down by Elon Musk.

motherjones.com
Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Feb 11, 2025

What Musk has done is illegal. The CFPB was created by Congress, and Congress—not Elon Musk, not Donald Trump—is the only one that can shut it down.

motherjones.com