Trump Fires Biden’s Consumer Protection Watchdog Rohit Chopra

Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under President Joe Biden, was fired by the Trump administration, a person with knowledge of the matter said.

“This letter confirms that my term as CFPB director has concluded,” he wrote Saturday in a letter to President Donald Trump posted on X.

Chopra was confirmed by the Senate as the top consumer-protection regulator in the US in September 2021. His exit was expected due to his aggressive regulatory approach and a 2020 Supreme Court decision that made it easy for presidents to fire the agency’s director.

Under Chopra, the ...