; and (K) restricting key input and feedback from a wide range of external stakeholders by effectively terminating members’ positions on three advisory boards, including the statutorily mandated Consumer Advisory Board. (9) The new leadership of the Consumer Bureau’s repeated attempts to hamstring the good work and the capacity of dedicated professional, career Consumer Bureau staff to hold bad actors accountable for their misdeeds will inevitably harm consumers and distort the functioning of fair and competitive consumer marketplaces, and nonsensically repeats the mistakes made by the Federal financial regulators that contributed to the global financial crisis. (10) Despite the fact that the agency has been referred to as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since it opened its doors over seven years ago, its new political leadership also opted to change the agency’s well-known name. Although this decision is supposedly intended to ensure that the agency is in compliance with Dodd-Frank, when this change is viewed in conjunction with the other detrimental actions to undermine the effectiveness of the agency, it can only be interpreted as an attempt to reduce the public’s awareness of, and significant support for, the agency’s role as the top Federal consumer cop as well as to obscure the public’s ability to identify easily the appropriate Federal agency to contact when faced with predatory behavior by financial actors. As such, while some may view this particular decision as minor, the action serves as an important symbolic, and literal, maneuver by the Trump Administration, through its unlawful appointment of Mr. Mulvaney, to diminish and undermine the consumer-focused mission of the Consumer Bureau. (11) Dodd-Frank gives the Director of the Consumer Bureau broad administrative and executive powers to, among other things: fix the number of, and appoint and direct, all employees of the agency; direct the establishment and maintenance of divisions or other offices within the agency