“President Trump’s decision to fire CFPB Director Rohit Chopra marks the end of an era of strong consumer protection and the beginning of a plan to end this important agency,” Maxine Waters, the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, said in a statement.

President Donald Trump has fired the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, in the latest purge of a Biden administration holdover.

Electronic Payments Coalition executive chairman Richard Hunt said Chopra’s tenure “was marked by witch-hunts and political weaponization” of the bureau, arguing that Chopra’s policies reduced the access that “vulnerable consumers” had to financial credit.

As Republicans mull unwinding Biden-era CFPB policies, Chopra’s strategy seems to have been “to make that as hard as possible by making the list as long as possible,” said a panelist during a Thursday webinar.

The change in leadership could portend radical changes at one of the nation’s most powerful consumer watchdog agencies.

Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, posted a letter to President Donald Trump on X announcing that he would no longer serve in the role.

The removal of Chopra, who established a reputation as an aggressive watchdog under former President Joe Biden, was widely expected after he spent years sparring with the financia

Rohit Chopra had led the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since 2021. Consumer groups praised his leadership, while Republicans have frequently attacked the agency.