Defending the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with Tyler Creighton

Defending the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with Tyler Creighton

February 1, 2026 · 1h 18m

About this episode

The episode discusses the efforts to protect the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from defunding, featuring insights from lawyer Tyler Creighton.

In this episode, we speak with Tyler Creighton about the ongoing struggle to save the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from defunding and closure at the hands of Russell Vought in the second Trump Administration. Creighton is a lawyer at the CFPB and a member of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), Chapter 335. Before joining the CFPB, Creighton clerked for the Massachusetts Appeals Court and, prior to that, he was an organizer for pro-democracy reforms at Common Cause and...

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