Appointment of billionaire Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to lead key agency, warned one advocate, "opens the floodgates for corporate abuse and financial scams."
Trump's Billionaire Appointee Targets Consumer Protections by Halting All CFPB Operations
https://www.commondreams.org/news/scott-bessent-cfpb
2 Comments
Whopraysforthedevil@midwest.social · 15 pts · 1y
So we're just closing everything, huh?
grue@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
No, just everything that actually helps normal people.
Military and law enforcement will not only stay open, they will be augmented with paramilitary jackbooted thugs to be deployed against the aforementioned normal people.