A U.S. district court convened a two-day hearing last week in the National Treasury Employees Union’s lawsuit aimed at stopping an effort by the Trump administration to greatly diminish the CFPB. The judge extended a freeze on contract terminations by the CFPB while contemplating a ruling on a preliminary injunction.
Just before the vote, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-MA, released the CFPB nominee’s answers to a series of questions regarding the bureau. Warren said his responses were filled with “non-answers that regurgitated the agency’s obligations under the law.”
It typically takes the CFPB less than one day to process a consumer’s complaint and send it to the company identified in the complaint. After the Trump administration disrupted operations at the bureau, the average complaint processing time temporarily jumped to six days.