Judge Wants Proof CFPB ‘Hasn’t Been Choked Out of Existence’ (1)

A top Consumer Financial Protection Bureau official was ordered to testify in court about the Trump administration’s plans to gut the agency and whether it is still handling consumer complaints and other congressionally mandated tasks.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the US District Court for the District of Columbia at a Monday hearing was skeptical of government claims that the near-total shuttering of the CFPB by acting Director Russell Vought was the normal process during presidential transitions.

She was responding in part to declarations from Adam Martinez, the CFPB’s chief operating officer, made to the court that the agency’s consumer ...