The top guy who looks out for consumers against student loan lenders and scammers just quit….
Why?
His new boss, the Trump OMB head and CFPB director Mick Mulvaney is working overtime to help the people who control your loan to screw you out of MORE money…..
Voting for Donald Trump might cost you money….
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s “Student Loan Ombudsman,” responsible for guarding student borrowers against predatory lenders and scammers, has resigned in a scathing letter aimed at acting CFPB director Mick Mulvaney.
“Unfortunately, under your leadership, the Bureau has abandoned the very consumers it is tasked by Congress with protecting,” Seth Frotman’s resignation letter, obtained by NPR, read. “Instead, you have used the Bureau to serve the wishes of the most powerful financial companies in America.”
In his role at CFPB, NPR reported, Frotman oversaw the review of thousands of complaints from student borrowers.
The Trump administration — namely Mulvaney, who also serves as the White House’s budget director, and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos — has worked diligently to burn pages of Obama-era protections for student borrowers.
Frotman’s letter pointed to specific wrongdoing by Mulvaney, NPR reported, including the alleged suppression of a report from his office revealing that big banks were “saddling [students] with legally dubious account fees.”
In May, NPR noted, Mulvaney called for Frotman’s office to be incorporated into the Office of Financial Education, effectively proposing to remove Frotman’s office from direct enforcement actions and shifting it to an educational role.
Regarding another change — the Department of Education’s announcement last year that it would no longer share federal student loan oversight data with the CFPB — Frotman wrote: “The Bureau’s current leadership folded to political pressure… and failed borrowers who depend on independent oversight to halt bad practices.”….
Note….
Republicans never liked the idea of a consumer protection agency for individuals and now have vowed to defang the agency from within….
While tragic for the kids, there is some weird poetic justice in this.
All those middle class people who voted for Trump because he “ cared” about them?Well Trump and Mulvaney (aka “ the Carolina cracka”)
Got a message for them,
“ Screw You”
The loan admin are blood suckers…