Originally appearing in NPR on February 27, 2025, Dan Weissmann, Emily Pisacreta, and Ellen Weiss quote Chi Chi Wu on the court battle she and her colleagues are mounting to slow down the agency’s dismantling — and where things could go from here.
“This is where states can step in and protect the consumers in their state. Nine states have already banned medical debt from credit reports. New York, Colorado, California, Rhode Island, even Virginia — a purple state. And so, if your listeners are wondering what can they do — […] obviously contact their members of Congress to support the CFPB — but also, […] if they are in a state that doesn’t have one of these laws, they can try to get their state legislatures to pass a law to protect them from medical debts on credit reports.”
Chi Chi Wu, senior attorney at the National Consumer Law Center
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