About a year before the subprime mortgage meltdown brought the global financial system to its knees, a Harvard Law School professor made the case for launching a new regulator to protect consumers getting ripped off by mortgages,

“RIP CFPB,” Musk posted on X last week, alongside a tombstone emoji.

Warren is a champion of the CFPB, no doubt, but the decisions that so anger Silicon Valley's right-wing elite were made by Rohit Chopra, who ran the agency during the Biden administration.

Senator Elizabeth Warren accused Elon Musk and Donald Trump of leaving American consumers completely exposed to financial exploitation after “illegally shutting down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).