Allied Progress: NYT Bombshell - Trump CFPB Manipulated Research in Rush to Undo Payday Protections
April 30, 2020
April 30, 2020
WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Allied Progress issued the following news release:
As the Trump Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is expected to finalize its payday rule this week, the New York Times exposed a troubling internal bureau memo revealing former acting director Mick Mulvaney and other Trump political appointees "pressured the bureau's economists to use 'inaccurate and inappropriate' data" in order to justify gutting core provisions of the existing payday rule, in pa . . .
As the Trump Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is expected to finalize its payday rule this week, the New York Times exposed a troubling internal bureau memo revealing former acting director Mick Mulvaney and other Trump political appointees "pressured the bureau's economists to use 'inaccurate and inappropriate' data" in order to justify gutting core provisions of the existing payday rule, in pa . . .