NEW YORK (AP) — Senate Republicans blocked an attempt by a group of Democrats to roll back several policy changes made under President Donald Trump to the nation’s consumer protection laws, ranging from how medical debts are collected to overdraft fees and consumer protections for members of the military. The push by Senate Democrats on Wednesday was a maneuver to force vulnerable GOP senators to take politically difficult votes in an election year as Democrats try to hammer Republicans on the economy. The Senate rejected three Democratic resolutions, largely along party lines. The votes were tied to rule or regulatory changes made by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since the Trump administration took over the bureau in February 2025. The bureau has rescinded 67 policies under its acting director, Russell Vought, who is also President Donald Trump’s budget director. Vought has publicly said that his goal is to effectively dismantle the agency.
“The Trump Administration is hell-bent on destroying the agency,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee and the top defender of the bureau in Congress.
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