The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was established to root out corporate wrongdoing after the 2008 crash. The Trump ...

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

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

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

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.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau hurts consumers by overregulating lenders. The Trump administration should shut it ...

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

Unlike most federal agencies, the bureau does not rely on the ... The crusade against the CFPB comes days after Trump fired ...

Russ Vought, President Donald Trump’s budget chief, told bureau employees in an email Monday they should “not perform any ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the latest U.S ... trade associations for payday lenders challenged the bureau's Federal Reserve funding as unconstitutional. In May 2024, the U.S ...

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