1. United States
2. Pa.
3. Letter

I am your constituent, and I am furious. The Trump administration is dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — an agency created by Congress, upheld by the Supreme Court, and responsible for returning over $21 billion to defrauded Americans. I am one of those Americans, and I am demanding you act now. What’s happening is not regulatory reform — it’s demolition. Acting Director Russell Vought ordered staff to halt all work. DOGE accessed the bureau’s systems and deleted its accounts. Its headquarters lease was terminated six years early. The workforce is being cut by more than half. The administration has now declared the CFPB’s funding mechanism unlawful to starve it out of existence. Trump himself said his goal was to “get rid of” the bureau. Elon Musk — whose own financial ventures benefit from gutting consumer oversight — posted “CFPB RIP.” This is personal to me. On multiple occasions, banks and financial companies defrauded me — charging unlawful fees, misrepresenting account terms, then stonewalling me when I tried to resolve it. I was transferred, ignored, and dismissed. They were betting I’d give up. The CFPB changed that. When I filed complaints, those companies responded within days. Money I was told I’d never recover was returned to me — more than once. Without the CFPB, I had no recourse. I couldn’t afford lawyers to fight billion-dollar institutions. That bureau was my only equalizer. It worked. When it’s gone, millions of Americans will have nowhere to turn — and the financial industry knows it. I am demanding you: publicly condemn this dismantling, champion legislation to protect CFPB funding, exercise your oversight authority to investigate these actions, and support the legal challenges already filed to stop them. The CFPB was created by Congress. Defend it.