"Obama’s presidential campaign advertising agency received nearly $60 million in federal contracts after he took office...The overwhelming majority of the $58 million funneled to GMMB came from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) created by Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren in 2011. The CFPB awarded the agency a whopping $43.7 million, about 75 percent of GMMB’s total federal funding stream. The second-most lucrative government account for GMMB is a community service agency founded by Bill Clinton, the Corporation for National and Community Service [AmeriCorps], which awarded GMMB $13.1 million worth of contracts...."[2]
The organization, as structured by Warren has no accountability to Congress. Congress has no oversight of its budget, and the Director by statute is only ordered to "appear" before Congress, not to answer any questions.
Mick Mulvaney was appointed by President Donald Trump to clean up the agency.[3]
The Wall Street Journal reported, "The pride of Harvard Law School, Ms. Warren is a hero to the political Left for proposing a new bureaucracy to micromanage the services that banks can offer consumers. But she is also so politically controversial that no less a liberal lion than Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd has warned the White House that she probably isn't confirmable."[4]
The CFPB has allowed liberal activists to raise the cost of credit and cause many people who were formerly able to apply for and be allotted lines of credit to no longer be able to do so.
A government report chronicles several instances of discrimination, many with an emphasis on unfair promotion practices and lopsided pay scales for minorities working at CFPB. There are currently “scores of cases of U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employees seeking protection from racially offensive, sexist or discriminatory behavior."[5]
In January 2019, Antifa leader José Alcoff, who had previously advocated for murder, was arrested in connection with an attack on two U.S. Marines a few months earlier.[6] Alcoff was working with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The CFPB is a corrupt bureaucracy created out of the 2008 Financial Crisis and Stimulus bill under the doctrine of 'not letting a crisis go to waste', whose purpose is to funnel government contracts and federal money to far leftist media consulting firms to aid Democrat electoral aims. It is the brainchild of Elizabeth Warren who served as its first head.
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