In our opinion: CFPB shouldn’t be shut down, but it should be more effective

The Trump administration this month descended upon the nation’s top consumer protection watchdog, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, ordering the agency’s roughly 2,000 employees to stay at home and not do any work. The step — effectively granting thousands of government employees an open-ended paid vacation — was met by an equally counterintuitive response: an employee protest outside the agency’s office, demanding the right to return to work.