State AGs expand consumer work as prices rise and Trump guts federal protections

By: Kevin Hardy

Outlets: Stateline

Published: July 27, 2026

Words: 1,556

Last Updated: 1 week ago

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Since President Donald Trump has gutted much of the federal government’s consumer protection work, state attorneys general are increasingly left to fight high prices and investigate businesses themselves.

Consumer protection work, long a growing focus of state AGs from both parties, has ramped up considerably more in the past two years, legal experts say. The change follows Trump’s dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency created by Congress in the wake of the …

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