Bureaucrats beware: Donald Trump is aiming his budget-cutting axe at one of the most wasteful, bloated agencies in the swamp—the so-called Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This Frankenstein agency, created as a playground for far-left power grabbers like Elizabeth Warren, is about to get two-thirds smaller if Trump’s new plan goes through. Frankly, only a liberal could invent such a monster: an unelected watchdog with endless power, fueled by our tax dollars, running wild on Main Street.
For years, the CFPB has trampled on small bankers, businesses, and family finances, all while pretending to “protect” Americans from evil corporations. Typical leftist logic—create a problem, then appoint yourself as the only solution. And who pays for it? Everyday taxpayers, not the rich professors and activists drawing up these schemes. Americans know the price of these socialist experiments, and they’re fed up.
Trimming this agency by two-thirds isn’t just good policy—it’s common sense. The CFPB has acted for years like judge, jury, and executioner without real accountability. Sound familiar? That’s the liberal dream: government unchained, answerable to no one, except Harvard elites and D.C. insiders. Thank goodness President Trump isn’t afraid to cut this beast down to size.
Of course, leftists are already whining about how the sky is falling, as if hardworking families want to pay for bureaucrats to harass their banks and credit cards. Only in Washington could a program that mainly serves lawyers and activists be protected like some sacred cow. The left’s real fear? That Americans will remember they can handle their own finances without Warren’s busybodies.
Make no mistake—this is just the start. The days of unchecked, unconstitutional power given to agencies set up by radical Dems are numbered. Maybe next time, they’ll think twice before giving themselves a blank check with our money. That’s what happens when you put an America First president back in charge. Remind me again: who exactly is protecting the consumer from these liberals?
Source: Redstate
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