Rohit Chopra was the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Rohit Chopra was fired after he said that the bureau was ready to work with the Trump administration.

Rohit Chopra, who led the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, was known for his aggressive enforcement and expansion of consumer protection laws.

President Donald Trump has fired the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, in the latest purge of a Biden administration holdover. Chopra was one of the more important regulators from the previous Democratic administration who was still on the job since Trump took office on Jan. 20. During Trump's first term, the Republican had picked Chopra as a Democrat member of the Federal Trade Commission.

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