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Trump nominates Jonathan McKernan as director of CFPB

By Editorial Board Published February 14, 2025 5 Min Read
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Trump nominates Jonathan McKernan as director of CFPB

President Donald Trump has nominated Jonathan McKernan as the brand new director of the Shopper Monetary Safety Bureau (CFPB), a significant transfer within the administration’s broader authorities restructuring. McKernan’s nomination has been despatched to the Senate for affirmation, the place he’s anticipated to be accredited.

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President Donald Trump has nominated Jonathan McKernan because the director of the Shopper Monetary Safety Bureau (CFPB), a significant transfer within the administration’s broader authorities restructuring. The nomination has been despatched to the Senate and is predicted to be accredited.

McKernan, who beforehand served as a board member of the Federal Deposit Insurance coverage Company (FDIC) and senior counsel of coverage on the Federal Housing Finance Company (FHFA), introduced his departure from the FDIC only a day earlier than his nomination. If confirmed, he’ll rejoin the FDIC board in a secondary function.

McKernan takes over the CFPB after a collection of performing administrators, together with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Director of the White Home Workplace of Administration and Price range Russell Vought. On Feb. 6, Vought was confirmed by the Senate to guide the Workplace of Administration and Price range simply three days after firing Biden-era CFPB Director Rohit Chopra.

As performing director, Vought rapidly moved to reduce CFPB operations, following Trump’s govt orders geared toward shrinking the federal authorities by:

Discontinuing supervision exercise, investigations and enforcement actions
Suspending the efficient dates of all last guidelines not but in impact
Slicing off the bureau’s funding, calling its $711.6 million stability “excessive”
Closing CFPB headquarters, ordering employees to work at home quickly earlier than finally ceasing all operations

The Nationwide Treasury Workers Union, which represents CFPB workers, responded by submitting two lawsuits in opposition to Vought on Feb. 9.

One go well with challenges Vought’s order to cease work, calling it “unlawful,” whereas the opposite argues that the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) mustn’t have entry to CFPB worker knowledge, citing potential dangers of misuse.

Earlier than McKernan’s nomination, he pushed for stronger oversight of enormous asset managers on the FDIC, arguing that their affect might distort financial institution administration, in response to Banking Dive. Although typically aligned with Republican priorities, he has backed bipartisan efforts to tighten laws on companies similar to Vanguard and BlackRock.

His prior expertise contains serving as a senior monetary coverage advisor for Sen. Bob Corker, former chair of the Senate Overseas Relations Committee, and holding counsel roles with the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and City Affairs and the U.S. Treasury.

In keeping with the FDIC, McKernan additionally co-chaired a particular committee that oversaw an impartial evaluate of office misconduct and points with office tradition from November 2023 to Could 2024.

Peter Idziak, a senior affiliate at mortgage legislation agency Polunsky Beitel Inexperienced, stated many within the lending trade are hopeful that McKernan’s nomination alerts that quite than shutting the CFPB down, the Trump administration intends to revisit insurance policies and practices which have allegedly elevated prices for customers and stifled innovation.

“Given McKernan’s policy expertise and significant tenure within government, his nomination may signal that the Trump Administration ultimately intends to reform the CFPB rather than ‘deleting’ it,” Idziak stated, in an announcement. The Trump administration “may have realized that simply hollowing out the Bureau would leave regulations crafted by the Biden administration in place to be enforced by states and the courts.”

The CFPB polices unlawful kickbacks in the actual property trade, along with defending customers from unfair, misleading or abusive lending practices.

The laws that created the CFPB, the Dodd-Frank Wall Road Reform and Shopper Safety Act, transferred regulatory oversight of the Actual Property Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) from the Division of Housing and City Growth (HUD) to the CFPB.

RESPA contains restrictions and prohibitions geared toward stopping mortgage lenders and settlement companies suppliers from paying actual property brokers and brokers for sending their enterprise their method with out offering correct disclosures to customers.

Electronic mail Richelle Hammiel

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