{"id":16731,"date":"2024-11-28T17:37:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T16:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/28\/elon-musk-calls-to-delete-us-finance-consumer-watchdog-agency\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T17:37:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T16:37:15","slug":"elon-musk-calls-to-delete-us-finance-consumer-watchdog-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/28\/elon-musk-calls-to-delete-us-finance-consumer-watchdog-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk calls to \u2018delete\u2019 US finance consumer watchdog agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech billionaire tapped by Trump posts on X about wanting to eliminate Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> has said he wants to \u201cdelete\u201d the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a federal watchdog that helps protect consumers from predatory financial practices.<\/p>\n<p>The tech billionaire, who has been tapped to run a \u201cDepartment of Government Efficiency\u201d in the incoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Donald Trump administration<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1861644897490751865\">posted<\/a> \u201cDelete CFPB\u201d on X, the social media site he owns. He added a declaration that the agency, which employs 1,700 people and has an annual budget of close to $700m, is an example of \u201ctoo many duplicative regulatory agencies\u201d in Washington.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/nov\/28\/elon-musk-cfpb-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/045cb1df04727fc14107eccdc28074225977c397\/0_126_5108_3065\/master\/5108.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8237c7011eab2d79c21b7e45948372c2\" title=\"Elon Musk calls to \u2018delete\u2019 US finance consumer watchdog agency\" \/>Tech billionaire tapped by Trump posts on X about wanting to eliminate Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)<br \/>\nElon Musk has said he wants to \u201cdelete\u201d the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a federal watchdog that helps protect consumers from predatory financial practices.<br \/>\nThe tech billionaire, who has been tapped to run a \u201cDepartment of Government Efficiency\u201d in the incoming Donald Trump administration, posted \u201cDelete CFPB\u201d on X, the social media site he owns. He added a declaration that the agency, which employs 1,700 people and has an annual budget of close to $700m, is an example of \u201ctoo many duplicative regulatory agencies\u201d in Washington. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech billionaire tapped by Trump posts on X about wanting to eliminate Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Elon Musk has said he wants to \u201cdelete\u201d the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a federal watchdog that helps protect consumers from predatory financial practices. The tech billionaire, who has been tapped to run a \u201cDepartment of Government &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/28\/elon-musk-calls-to-delete-us-finance-consumer-watchdog-agency\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elon Musk calls to \u2018delete\u2019 US finance consumer watchdog agency<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16731"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}