Before the senateWarren is an active consumer protection advocate whose scholarship led to the conception and establishment of the U . S . Consumer Financial Protection Bureau . She has written a number of academic and popular works , and is a frequent subject of media interviews regarding the American economy and personal finance . Following the 2008 financial crisis , Warren served as chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel created to oversee the Troubled Asset Relief Program TARP . In the SenateAt Warren ' s first Banking Committee hearing on February 14 , 2013 , she pressed several banking regulators to answer when they had last taken a Wall Street bank to trial and stated , I ' m really concerned that ' too big to fail ' has become ' too big for trial '. In May 2013 , Warren sent letters to the Justice Department , Securities and Exchange Commission , and the Federal Reserve , questioning their decisions that settling rather than going to court would be more fruitful . Later that month , Warren introduced her first bill , the Bank on Student Loans Fairness Act , which would allow students to take out government education loans at the same rate that banks such as Goldman Sachs and J . P . Morgan Chase pay to borrow from the federal government . Saying , despite the progress we ' ve made since 2008 , the biggest banks continue to threaten our economy , in July 2015 Senator Warren , along with John McCain RAZ , Maria Cantwell DWA , and Angus King IME reintroduced the 21 st Century GlassSteagall Act , a modern version of the Banking Act of 1933 . Uh . so what has Trump done to regulate banking ? What has he done to protect Americans ? Oh . his sacrifice in business was a great sacrifice for America .