Appearing in CNBC on February 21, 2025, Kamaron McNair talks to NCLC Co-Director of Advocacy Abby Shafroth for coverage of talks of eliminating the U.S. Department of Education and the impact on student loan borrowers. First and foremost, even if the department is eliminated, borrowers who owe money on their federal student loans would be…
Originally appearing in USA Today on February 21, 2025, Daniel de Visé interviews NCLC Associate Director Lauren Saunders for coverage of the Trump Administration’s attack on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and calls for it to be shut down. “We are hoping that these are broadly popular measures, that Republicans will understand that their voters…
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Small business owners and consumer advocates stepped up to save a popular anti-robocall rule.
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Appearing in Marketplace on February 7, 2025, Janet Nguyen talks to NCLC senior attorney Margot Saunders about why consumers still receive unwanted telemarketing robocalls. The FCC bans spoofing with ill intent, but the agency only has so many resources to handle complaints. Telemarketers will claim they got consent to make their calls. But telemarketers often ask…
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Appearing in CNBC on February 7, 2025, Stephanie Dhue talks to NCLC Senior Attorney Chi Chi Wu for coverage of how credit card interest rates have been hovering near record highs and a new bipartisan bill that would cap them at a dramatically lower figure. Experts say it may not be a win for consumers. “You…
Appearing in the Detroit Free Press on February 12, 2025, Susan Tompor interviews NCLC Associate Director Lauren Saunders for coverage of the Administration’s move to shutter the CFPB. “This is an agency that touches all of our lives.”Saunders noted a long list of ways that the CFPB has worked to address everything from rip-offs to…
Appearing in NPR on February 13, 2025, Laurel Wamsley covers the Trump Administration’s recent firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and a lawsuit filed by NCLC and others to stop additional firings.
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Originally appearing in TIME on February 13, 2025, Alana Semuels interviews NCLC Associate Director Lauren Saunders for coverage of the Trump Administration’s plans to shutter the CFPB and what that means for consumers, including Misty Castaneda, who would benefit greatly from the bureau’s rule to remove medical debt from credit reports. “The CFPB was established…
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Appearing in CNBC on January 17, 2025, Greg Iacurci interviews Chi Chi Wu, senior attorney at NCLC after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined Equifax $15 million over credit reporting errors and alleged the credit bureau failed to properly investigate consumer disputes. “Credit bureaus have been sued repeatedly for this kind of conduct. They’re decades-old…
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Appearing in the Associated Press on February 12, 2025, Cora Lewis interviewed NCLC Associate Director Lauren Saunders for coverage of the Trump Administration’s decision to halt work at CFPB. “President Trump campaigned on lowering prices, and a lot of people voted for him because of high prices. and yet we’re seeing Republicans move to make…
Appearing in CNBC on January 18, 2025, Jessica Dickler quotes NCLC Executive Director Richard Dubois in coverage of the impact of the incoming administration on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The agency protects “hard-working people from predatory practices and discrimination in financial services.” Richard Dubois, executive director of the National Consumer Law Center.
Update: On Feb. 14, Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered that the defendants cannot delete any CFPB records or data, cannot terminate CFPB employees, and cannot return CFPB funds pending a preliminary injunction hearing scheduled for March 3. National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), National Consumer Law Center, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),…
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