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 ...

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 ...

"CFPB RIP," Musk wrote on X on Friday. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal agency designed to prevent another financial crisis and protect people from scams, has halted most of its ...

Senate Building on January 22 in Washington, DC. The move came after CFPB’s X account, formerly available at @CFPB, appeared to be taken offline—telling users “This account doesn’t exist ...

UPDATE: This story was on Feb. 9 and Feb. 11 to include information about closing the CFPB headquarters and the Slate reporting. 1. Stop all supervision activity that has not been approved by the ...

Musk’s team on Friday entered the headquarters of the CFPB, an agency that the billionaire Donald Trump adviser has personally targeted, according to three people familiar with their actions.

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 protects consumers by analyzing the practices of large financial institutions like banks, lenders, credit unions, and debt collectors to ensure they are not improperly targeting consumers.

The source told CNN that DOGE officials have been granted administrative access to CFPB systems, including content management system, back-end systems for the bureau’s website and the active ...

Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is quickly seeking to crack down on the activities of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), preventing it from drawing down more ...

Tierney L. Cross / Bloomberg via Getty Images Russell Vought took over as CFPB's acting chief last week Issuing a dozen directives Saturday, Vought asked CFPB staff to pause investigations and ...

Three DOGE team membersChristopher Young, Nikhil Rajpal, and Gavin Kligerarrived at the CFPB’s Washington office, the CFPB employees union NTEU 335 said in a Friday statement. The move comes months ...