Why Trump Wants To Shutter The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

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  It's Tuesday, February 11th.

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  I'm Jane Coston and this is what a day.

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  The show that has decided it has hurt too many Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce conspiracy theories.

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  On today's show,

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  President Donald Trump doubles down on his plan to kick Palestinians out of Gaza

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  and a federal judge says

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  that the White House has defied his order to unfreeze billions in federal grants.

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  But let's start

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  with the administration's push to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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  If you viscerally remember the 2008 financial crisis,

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  you know why the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created.

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  The gross combination of predatory lenders, financial institutions running amok,

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  and a housing bubble led to the biggest financial downturn in the United States

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  since the Great Depression.

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  I graduated from college during that time, as did millions of millennials.

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  And if you ever wondered why people around my age are the way we are,

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  well, it wasn't the avocado toast we were all allegedly purchasing anyway.

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  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created to protect consumers

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  from the scams that left millions of Americans out of work

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  and out of their homes during the Great Recession and the scams that banks

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