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The highest-ranking enforcement official at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has resigned with an angry rebuke of how the Trump administration is treating the agency.

Acting Enforcement Director Cara Petersen said the administration “has no intention to enforce the law in any meaningful way.” Petersen, who has been with the CFPB since its creation, angrily denounced the administration in an email obtained by Reuters.

“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,” Petersen wrote in her email. “It has been devastating to see the bureau’s enforcement function being dismantled through thoughtless reductions in staff, inexplicable dismissals of cases, and terminations of negotiated settlements that let wrongdoers off the hook.”

Petersen added, “While I wish you all the best, I worry for American consumers.”

The CFPB did not comment on Petersen’s remarks.