Your private data is up for grabs thanks to Trump
Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, took time away from his busy schedule on Wednesday for his side gig as acting director of what’s left of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
In that role, Vought just tossed out a proposed CFPB rule that would have limited what data brokers could do with consumers’ private data, like credit history and Social Security numbers.
President Donald Trump often justifies his horrendous actions by saying that the people voted for him to do it, but this is absurd. Though Trump did telegraph a lot of his worst plans, like his violent immigration crackdown, surely no one could have foreseen his claim that Americans wanted to be freed from the tyranny of having their private data stay private.
But Trump’s attack against the CFPB was clearly outlined in Project 2025, of which Vought was a key architect, with claims that the CFPB is unconstitutional, harmful, and unaccountable. But in reality, the CFPB has paid for itself several times over, returning more than $21 billion to consumers since it began operation in 2011.
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