Donald Trump has fired the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, who announced Saturday that his term had been “concluded” in the latest move by the Republican president to reshape the American government.
Rohit Chopra, who had been named to head the agency responsible for protecting bank customers in 2021, had been due to serve a five-year term, but in a letter posted on social platform X he said that had been cut short.
“Every day, Americans from across the country shared their ideas and experiences with us. You helped us hold powerful companies & their executives accountable for breaking the law, and you made our work better,” he wrote.
The advocacy group Progressive Change Campaign Committee slammed the dismissal as “a direct giveaway to Wall Street,” accusing the president of having “caved into pressure.”
Chopra had engaged in multiple skirmishes with…
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