The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is one of those things that sounds purely like the government helping out the sainted little guy against threats from the powerful and the predatory. And there's a lot of danger in that. The CFPB was created by Democrats as part of the passage of Dodd-Frank in 2010, and Obama appointed left-wing stalwart Richard Cordray to wield the agency's considerable power.
Now Trump believes, correctly, that it's time to rein Cordray and the CFPB in, which the political class sees as a case of evil Republicans undercutting the rights of the common folk:
