What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Our Statement on House Passage of Wrong Choice Act, Dismantles CFPB, Repeals Dodd-Frank

U.S. PIRG

The following statement can be attributed to Ed Mierzwinski, Consumer Program Director at U.S. PIRG.

“What Could Possibly Go Wrong If Wall Street Banks and Predatory Payday Lenders Are Allowed to Run Amok Again?”

“Today, the U.S. House, on a nearly party-line vote, approved HR10, the Financial Choice Act, which is the Wrong Choice for all of us who aren’t Wall Street banks or predatory lenders and would gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB.

The bill would leave the successful CFPB as an unrecognizable husk incapable of doing its job to protect consumers, homeowners, older Americans, students, servicemembers and veterans. It would also repeal most Dodd-Frank protections enacted to prevent big Wall Street banks and other players from recklessly bringing on another financial collapse.

What could possibly go wrong if Wall Street banks and predatory payday lenders are allowed to run amok again?”

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