Not to mention the student loan landscape has changed dramatically since Chopra’s old days at the CFPB

Thanks to his early days at the CFPB, Chopra has spent years as a close ally of Elizabeth Warren. I have no doubt you are the right person to lead the bureau at this moment, the senator said at his confirmation hearing last year. Thanks to that friendship, progressive advocates have been optimistic about the direction Chopra will take the agency. He’s extraordinarily progressive, but was also one of the very few registered Democrats to get confirmed through the McConnell gauntlet in the Trump years, noted Felicia Wong, president of the Roosevelt Institute, a think tank where Chopra worked briefly as a fellow. Read more