CFPB Beefs Up Legal, Legislative Staff Amid Mounting Challenges

The CFPB is adding three staffers to its general counsel’s office and a new top legislative affairs official, gearing up for legal threats to its existence and a hostile Congress.

Two longtime agency lawyers, Rebecca Deutsch and Steve Bressler, were named the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s deputy general counsel for law and policy, and litigation, respectively, according to an agency email that was obtained by Bloomberg Law.

Jason Powell will serve as deputy general counsel for oversight, said the email CFPB Director Rohit Chopra’s office sent to agency staff on Friday. Powell, who joins the CFPB from Citizens for Responsibility ...