Trump fires director of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | Jefferson City News-Tribune

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : " "Trump was always more interested in serving his billionaire boys club than delivering change for working people," Richards said.
46% : Chopra was one of the more important regulators from the previous Democratic administration who was still on the job since Trump took office on Jan. 20.
44% : Richard Hunt, executive chairman of the Electronic Payments Coalition, said Chopra's tenure "was marked by witch-hunts and political weaponization" of the bureau, arguing that Chopra's policies reduced the access that "vulnerable consumers" had to financial credit.
34% : When The Associated Press reported on Jan. 22 that Chopra remained in his job after Trump took the oath of office, his critics in the financial sector quickly said the president needed to dismiss him.

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