The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Consumer Protection Undone

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is being defunded by Republicans .

The agency has no staff and is only called in to work to drop old enforcement cases.

This has massive consequences for ordinary people, who are complaining more and more about financial scams.

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