CFPB Official Quits With Fiery Email

Cara Peterson, the acting head of enforcement for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, quit on Tuesday after sending a fiery email to her department denouncing the Trump administration’s efforts to gut the watchdog agency.

“I have served under every director and acting director in the bureau’s history and never before have I seen the ability to perform our core mission so under attack,” wrote Ms. Peterson, who had worked at the agency since its creation in 2011.

The consumer bureau, the only federal regulator and enforcer of consumer financial protection laws, has been fighting for its survival since President Trump installed Russell T. Vought, the White House budget office director, as the agency’s acting leader in early February. Congress created the bureau, and only…