Here's some background on the scope of the CFPB's activities and how the agency's tenuous status might affect consumers.

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

Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget and the acting director of CFPB, ordered the federal watchdog ...

To Jonathon Booth, it’s simply the agency that helped him get $17 back. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is in the crosshairs of a White House that has halted its work, closed its ...

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

A federal judge has ordered a halt to efforts to dismantle and close down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Acting on a lawsuit filed by num ...

The top officials for enforcement and supervision at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Tuesday they had resigned, citing the Trump's administration decision to halt all ...

A judge said in a ruling Friday that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could not terminate employees without cause, ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the so-called cop on the beat protecting Americans from financial abuse, is now under strict orders to do nothing. “Please do not perform any work tasks ...

The Trump administration's got its eyes on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. What's at stake for Americans? Experts ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the latest U.S. government agency to have its work halted by the Trump administration NEW YORK -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which ...