CFPB Emerges From Trump Storm Battered But Intact
The previous administration tried to hollow out the agency, but career civil servants kept their heads down and are poised to step up their efforts.
Rohit Chopra can resuscitate the CFPB.
Photographer: Alex Edelman/Bloomberg
The federal government is filled with anonymous civil servants who spent the past four years keeping their heads down and doing their jobs while trying to prevent Donald Trump’s appointees from subverting their agencies’ missions. Dave Uejio is one of those civil servants.
Uejio has never worked anywhere but the government, a fact he points to with pride on his LinkedIn page. (“I am obsessed with providing the American people with the world class Federal government they deserve.”) After stints with the Office of Personnel Management and the National Institutes of Health, Uejio joined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2012. The bureau, just seven months old, brimmed with idealism as it aggressively sought to keep consumers from being taken advantage of by the financial services industry.