Within two months of Donald Trump returning to the White House, the president and his team had radically altered the direction of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Instead of allowing the CFPB ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced on Friday that it intends to continue supervising financial institutions ‌on a limited basis in 2026, signaling a shift ...

Russell Vought’s dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is putting the public at risk in areas ranging from auto loans and digital payments to credit cards and credit reports. Two ...

CFPB ensures financial markets fairness, focusing on rule enforcement and consumer education. Established post-2008 crisis, CFPB centralizes oversight of banking/lending practices. Investors benefit ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been quiet since the early days of the second Trump presidency, when the administration stopped work at the agency and told staffers to stay home. But ...

A coalition of 22 attorneys general from Democratic-led states sued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and its director, Russell Vought, on Monday, asserting that the White House’s argument to ...

The Justice Department embraced a novel conservative legal theory that it said blocked the Federal Reserve from funding the agency. By Stacy Cowley In the Trump administration’s fight to kill the ...

The Trump administration had tried to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which acts as a guardrail for the safety of the financial system. By Emmett Lindner A federal judge on Tuesday ...

John Thompson had been working at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for over a decade when he and his colleagues were abruptly ordered to halt work. It was February, and the Trump ...

A federal appeals court will soon decide whether the Trump administration can fire a majority of the staff at an agency tasked with helping consumers and take other actions that could gut the bureau.