Lawyers representing the acting director of the CFPB reached an agreement during a court conference Friday to temporarily ...

The CFP also prosecutes companies that it says fail to protect consumers. In December, it filed a lawsuit against the ...

WASHINGTON — The nearly 1,700 employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) were told Monday not to come to the office or do any work — as the agency became the latest target of ...

Russell Vought, the acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is halting the flow of new funding to the agency and shutting down its headquarters, the latest threat to the CFPB’s ...

Headquarters-based staff will work remotely this week after a new acting chief halted agency supervision and enforcement and ...

On Sunday, employees at the CFPB received a two-sentence email from Adam Martinez, the agency's chief operating officer, telling DC employees to work remotely. "The DC Headquarters Building will ...

Feb. 9The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents CFPB employees, sued Vought, asking a judge to stop him from halting the bureau’s work and alleging he granted staffers from Musk ...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Monday slammed the Trump administration’s reported efforts to shutter the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) as “another scam.” “If you have a ...

Russell Vought, the newly installed director of the Office of Management and Budget, directed the CFPB, in a Saturday night email confirmed by The Associated Press, to stop work on proposed rules ...

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) headquarters in Washington, D.C. Photo: Getty Images About 100 workers at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau protested outside the agency’s ...

The CFPB is an independent government agency established by Congress in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to protect consumers from corporate fraud and scams. President Trump named Russell ...