WARREN, SANDERS PRESS TOP TRUMP STUDENT LOAN OFFICIAL ON PLAN TO PROTECT BORROWERS GIVEN PAST CENSORSHIP OF KEY STUDENT LOAN REPORT, EXTENSIVE LOBBYING RECORD

WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren issued the following press release:

U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (BHUA), and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), pressed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) new Student Loan Ombudsman, Geoffrey Gradler, on his plan to protect student loan borrowers, especially given his past censorship of a key student loan report at the CFPB and his background as a lobbyist for lenders. The senators also asked him to recuse himself from past clients' matters that might come before his office at the CFPB.

"We are concerned that you...