That figure doesn’t cover “costs Americans could have been scammed out of due to a sidelined CFPB,” notes a new report.

The Trump administration’s ongoing effort to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cost Americans nearly $20 billion in just a year, according to a report released Monday as Democratic lawmakers and campaigners marked the anniversary of the White House’s hostile takeover and gutting of the CFPB. The new report was assembled by Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee led by Sen.

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