Could Shutting Down the CFPB Severely Dent Small Businesses’ Access to Capital?
Shuttering the agency would be a death knell to the CFPB’s small-business data collection rule, which is meant to enforce ...
Federal workers face mass layoffs. JD Vance meets with Ukraine’s Zelensky. Here’s how Friday unfolded.
Federal workers all over the country responded with anger and confusion amid Trump's aggressive effort to shrink the size of ...
The Dismantling of the CFPB Is Already Harming Consumers—and Worse May Be to Come
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could drop lawsuits against dozens of companies, putting billions of dollars in ...
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After 400 Million Cupcakes Sold, Baked By Melissa’s Founder Still Calls Her Multi-Million Dollar Company A ‘Small Business’
By 2009, Baked by Melissa opened its first location as a pop-up window at Cafe Bari in Soho, New York City. Fast forward to today, and the brand has sold over 400 million cupcakes and 14 brick-and ...
RealClearPolitics7d
DOGE Is Right To Defang the CFPB
Consumers will be better off without the CFPB breathing down the neck of American companies. Since the inauguration of President Trump, the CFPB’s temporary leadership put an immediate halt on ...
Politico6d
Judge temporarily halts mass firings at CFPB, preserves agency data
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson blocked the CFPB from terminating additional employees after the Trump administration this week fired dozens of agency workers, including an entire team of ...
The Hill6d
Judge blocks Trump admin from firing CFPB employees
A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from firing employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) amid a larger push to effectively dismantle the agency.
New York Post10d
CFPB’s 1,700 employees told to ‘not perform any work’ as Obama-era agency becomes latest Trump target
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 ...
Politico11d
Vought cuts off CFPB funding, saying it’s not necessary to run the agency
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 ...
The Washington Post6d
Layoffs halted at CFPB for now as judge considers union’s lawsuit
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Friday issued an order reflecting the agreement to not terminate the agency’s employees, delete CFPB data or transfer money out of its reserves for now.
ABC News6d
New CFPB leadership agrees to hold off on mass firings while lawsuit proceeds
The consumer watchdog agency began layoffs on Thursday. Government lawyers representing the acting director of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau reached an agreement during a court conference ...