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USA Today: Consumer protection wanes under Trump, reports find

USA Today, March 13th, 2019: Consumer protection wanes under Trump, reports find

Tasked with protecting Americans against harmful financial practices, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has taken a less aggressive approach under the Trump administration, according to a pair of new reports, one given exclusively to USA TODAY.

The bureau doled out 35 enforcement actions with fines of $5,000 or more against corporations in the first two years of the Trump administration, down from 64 in the last two years of the Obama administration, according to Public Citizen, which used a database compiled by Good Jobs First, an advocacy group promoting corporate and government accountability.

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