Question for the Republican candidates:  Why Now?
WASHINGTON ― Republicans don’t like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. They opposed the very idea of the watchdog when Elizabeth Warren first proposed its creation, and they have been trying to defang and defund it ever since Congress made her vision into a reality.

Republicans typically attack the CFPB for being good at its job. The agency has returned over $11 billion to a total of 25 million bilked consumers in its first five years, and every dollar that goes back to customers is a dollar that a financial firm doesn’t get to book as its own profit. 

I guess conservatives don't mind getting ripped off for millions by Republicans, but watch the up-roar when a Democrat steals even a dime. You will never hear the end of that "crime" for the next 59 presidential elections.