Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ordered to stop work: What to know about the agency
Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget and the acting director of CFPB, ordered the federal watchdog to stop work.
Fed's Powell: No Agency Other Than CFPB Tasked With Consumer Protection Enforcement
No U.S. regulator other than the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is tasked with ensuring that banks abide by rules guarding against deceptive practices regarding consumers, the head of the Federal Reserve said on Tuesday as he was pressed by a senior Democratic senator to ensure the CFPB remains funded.
Secrecy preceded the shutdown of the consumer protection agency's Washington headquarters
President Donald Trump’s budget chief has sent an email to consumer protection agency employees telling them to stop working
Trump wants to shut the CFPB. So what does this consumer agency do?
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.
Consumer protection agency neutralized by Trump's new chief
Elon Musk's efficiency department has access to computer systems at an agency that would likely regulate one of his pending ventures and its competitors.
Union sues over US consumer protection agency work pause
The union representing staff at the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued the acting head of the agency, as the Trump administration ordered all work at the watchdog to cease
From credit cards to medical debt: What may happen to some key consumer protection rules under Trump
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the so-called cop on the beat protecting Americans from financial abuse, is now ...
US consumer bureau upheaval leaves consumers adrift, experts say
The Trump administration's rapid dismantling of the U.S. consumer protection watchdog will have broad implications for ...
The Latest: Consumer protection regulators get fill-in-the-blank firing memos
Probationary employees have less civil service protection because they’ve been on the job for less than a year. The bureau, ...
36 Hours After Russell Vought Took Over Consumer Bureau, He Shut Its Operations
The agency had been one of Wall Street’s most feared regulators, with the power to issue rules on mortgages, credit cards, ...
Two top consumer bureau officials resign after Trump admin halts work
Two top officials at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) resigned Tuesday, after the agency’s acting director ...
US consumer watchdog's enforcement, supervision chiefs say they resigned
The top officials for enforcement and supervision at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Tuesday they had ...
CFPB ordered to stop work, new director appointed
The Trump administration ordered a halt to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's activities shortly after a new acting director was appointed.