The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in early February challenging the validity of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's ...

The Massachusetts senator invited the tech billionaire to testify at an informal hearing focusing on the Consumer Financial ...

The agency—an unelected regulator with a blank check—has spent much of its short life making things harder for the consumers ...

On February 4, the Congressional Research Service updated its report on the CFPB’s budget and funding structure, finding the Bureau’s ...

The CFPB emerged in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis with the mission of "enforcing federal consumer financial laws and ...

More than 170 Senate and House Democrats blast the work stoppage the Trump administration has implemented at the consumer ...

President Trump and other critics of the agency say it needs to be shut down. Supporters of the agency point to its record of ...

Bessent has instructed CFPB staff to halt some activities ... “An important part of the solution is fixing the regulatory structure.” Banks have been criticized for closing customer accounts ...

Reining in the CFPB has long been a target of Republicans and tech executives after the Biden administration implemented new regulations to address predatory lending and credit card and banking fees.

WASHINGTON - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal agency designed to protect consumers from the banking industry in the wake of the Great Recession, is halting its operations ...