The fate of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, is uncertain as the agency and its workers have faced a ...

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

Almost immediately after the Senate named Russ Vought Office of Management and Budget director, President Donald Trump also named him the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The Trump administration's Feb. 8 order that employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau halt much of their work amounts to an existential crisis for a government agency that itself was ...

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 ...

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was defanged over the weekend by Trump administration appointees, after Russell Vought, the agency's acting chief, ordered the staff to halt work and ...

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 ...

When the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau made an appearance in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 blueprint, the conservative group’s plan was simple: Abolish it entirely. Now ...

NEW YORK — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Congress established to monitor credit card companies, mortgage providers, debt collectors and other segments of the consumer finance ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will be shut down for a week, according to multiple reports. The CFPB’s Chief Operating Officer Adam Martinez said in a Sunday email that there ...