‘We’re Operating’: CFPB Official Testifies at Evidentiary Hearing in U.S. Court

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM

A Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) official took the witness stand and spoke about the regulatory agency in District of Columbia federal court on Monday, as plaintiffs seek extraordinary relief forcing the Trump administration to maintain the CFPB’s statutory duties. CFPB COO Adam Martinez testified before U.S. District Senior Judge Amy Berman Jackson about the CFPB’s stop-work order. “I don’t want to say, ‘normal,’ but we’re operating,” Martinez said of the CFPB’s current operations, according to The Associated Press.

Deepak Gupta, founding principal of Gupta Wessler, represents a variety of plaintiffs who allege they will suffer irreparable harm if the CFPB is “dismantled” by the Trump administration.