URGENT: Help Save the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
We need your stories about how CFPB has helped you and your family.
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Help Save CFPB!
Have a story about how CFPB helped you and your family? We need to hear your stories NOW. Please share here!
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been an unqualified success. Since its creation in 2014, it has won $21 billion in relief for tens of millions of consumers in the form of financial restitution and cancelled debts while providing a much-needed check on out-of-control financial institutions.
And it has solved many, many problems through its consumer complaint system:
Medical Debt. The CFPB helped a single mother of five in Florida eliminate $1,386 in unjust medical debt
Overdraft. A retiree overdrew a checking account by just a few dollars and got saddled with $158 in predatory bank fees until CFPB intervened.
Runarounds. The CFPB helped a New Jersey consumer challenge false past-due notices from Synchrony Bank and won $225 million in consumer relief from the bank.
This institution is hear to protect the little guy.
The Trump administration, with Elon Musk’s DOGE bros at the forefront, have begun to destroy CFPB - first by secreting themselves away in basement conference rooms with access to computer systems. Then by sending all employees home, then ordering them to cease work entirely. A first wave of mass firings has already occurred. More purges seem likely if the courts don’t put a permanent stop to this madness.
Share YOUR Story
We can fight back by surfacing the stories of the people who got help from the CFPB. DemCast and AFR can amplify these stories and create a drumbeat to save the agency. YOUR stories are power that we can use to make clear that there’s a political price to be paid if elected officials don’t stand up and #DefendCFPB.
Fight the feeling of powerlessness by sharing your story OR posting on social media to encourage others to share their stories.
Got a story to share? Click here to tell YOUR story.
Want to urge others to share THEIR stories? Share this post! (Feel free to copy and paste the sample social post language below to include with the shared link.)
Sample Social Post language:
🚨 Did you get help from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?
🚨 Now CFPB needs YOUR help!
Your story is POWER, and Americans for Financial Reform - which fought with Elizabeth Warren to create the CFPB - needs to hear as many stories from consumers as possible.
Click here:
tRump is a dictator, not a president.
If you have republican congresspeople, contact them and demand that they resign.
They are complicit in this coup.
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