With the government's consumer watchdog agency off the job on the orders of President Donald Trump, Democratic lawmakers are ...

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 ...

In his semiannual testimony before the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the effective shuttering of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau leaves no federal ...

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.

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.

"CFPB RIP," Musk wrote on X on Friday ... misguided regulatory actions and stand ready to support his efforts to chart a better course for the Bureau," he said in a statement.

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 ...

Assistant Director for the Office of Enforcement Eric Halperin and Assistant Director for Supervision Policy Lorelei Salas ...

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 ...