CFPB Hides Corporate Wrongdoing from Public View
Trump Administration Removes Consumer Reports from Public Database
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This is a letter opposing H.R. 6955, a dangerous bank deregulation package would undermine core safeguards and supervision, push risk into the shadows and make the next publicly financed bailout more likely.
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The undersigned 38 consumer and advocacy groups expressed opposition to H.R. 5775, the FCRA Liability Harmonization Act (Loudermilk) and H.R. 8141, the Fair Credit Reporting Reseller Accuracy Act (Lawler). In short: H.R. 5775, the FCRA Liability Harmonization Act, would dramatically reduce accountabilityfor credit bureaus and other companies, including when they wrongfully label innocentconsumers as bad…
H.R. 5402, the Credit Access and Inclusion Act, is touted as helping consumers build credit by including rent and utility payment history, but in reality it preempts state and other federal laws that give consumers control over their personal information and harms consumers struggling to afford high utility bills or obtain affordable rental housing. The undersigned…
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New Actions Targeted at Discouraging People from Challenging the Big Three Credit Reporting Companies
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By engaging directly with congressional offices, advocates aim to ensure that consumer interests remain at the center of policy discussions.
This letter opposes inclusion of the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act (REINS Act) in Budget Reconciliation because it would require that any major rule from an administrative agency would require affirmative approval of the entire rule by both houses of Congress.
NCLC joined comments urging the CFPB to fundamentally rewrite its draft Strategic Plan to reflect a vision that proactively and aggressively defends ordinary people while ensuring fair, transparent, and competitive financial markets. The draft plan presumes that consumer protection regulation is an “unwarranted burden, retreats from non-bank supervision, narrows the definition of actionable harm, de-emphasizes…
Bad Process Leads to Bad Rule As CFPB Fails to Meaningfully Review More than 64,500 Comments
Proposal to Dramatically Reduce CFPB Staff Would Cripple Supervision of Banks and Fintech Lending Apps; Cut Enforcement Staff by 80%
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Appearing in ProPublica on March 10, 2026, Joel Jacobs talks to Chi Chi Wu, director of consumer reporting at NCLC, about how TransUnion and Experian, have sharply reduced the share of consumer complaints they resolved in customers’ favor since the Trump administration began dismantling the CFPB. The credit bureaus “want to do as little as…
This NCLC comment expresses strong opposition to changes proposed by the Consumer Data Industry Association (CDIA) that would throttle the number of complaints filed with the CFPB against the three Big Three credit bureaus (Experian, Equifax and TransUnion). The comments object to the CFPB’s action in already adopting one of the changes demanded by CDIA,…