Home of the Brave’s newest release features former CFPB leader Lorelei Salas—whom the Trump administration pushed out in its purge of the agency—talking about what’s lost when you dismantle America’s consumer financial protection watchdog.
EMBARGOED FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2026 AT 5 A.M. ET.
WASHINGTON – Wednesday, April 8, 2026 – Today Home of the Brave released an exclusive new video featuring Lorelei Salas, former Supervision Director for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), talking about the damage the Trump administration is doing to American consumers in its attempt to dismantle the agency. Salas was forced out in the face of stop-work orders from Donald Trump last year, and in the video she talks about what that process felt like, and why the administration chose to wage war on her agency:
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For three and a half years, Salas was in charge of holding large financial institutions accountable for defrauding consumers out of their money, and returning that money back to the American people. She is one of many dedicated public servants who this administration has prevented from doing her job. During her years of service, she was instrumental in helping the CFPB accomplish its mission “to implement and enforce federal consumer financial laws, and to ensure that markets for consumer financial services and products are fair, transparent, and competitive.”
As soon as Trump reentered office last year, he fired CFPB Director Rohit Chopra and installed his OMB Director, Russell Vought—the leading figure in Project 2025—as the agency’s acting director. Vought moved to hobble the agency, ordering that employees cease operations, and locking them out of their work buildings. At that time, Trump bragged: “We virtually shut down the out-of-control CFPB, escorting radical left bureaucrats out of the building and locking the doors behind them.” The administration also dropped a slew of high-profile CFPB lawsuits against some of the nation’s largest financial institutions.
Salas and her colleagues embodied what it means to live a life of public service. She did the hard work of shielding Americans from predatory practices that they themselves often couldn’t see. As she herself has said, oftentimes people don’t even know that they’re entitled to a payout until an action from the CFPB results in a check arriving in the mail. That kind of work is invaluable, and if this administration succeeds in its war on the agency, we risk losing it forever.
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