How America's chief consumer-protection agency came into the Trump administration's crosshairs
When the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau made an appearance in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 blueprint, the conservative group’s plan was simple: Abolish it entirely.
Secrecy, covered windows preceded shutdown of consumer protection agency’s headquarters
President Donald Trump’s budget chief has sent an email to consumer protection agency employees telling them to stop working. The message arrived Monday as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Washington headquarters was being shut down for the week.
'This is what we're going to dismantle?': Massachusetts lawmakers react to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau shutdown
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employees demanded Monday to be let into the agency's Washington, D.C., building after Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency essentially shut down the bureau.
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.
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.
Democrats vow to fight shutdown of consumer watchdog agency
A group of 191 House and Senate Democrats sent a letter to Russell Vought, the newly installed director of the Office of ...
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Trump officials fire dozens of Chopra's hires at CFPB
On Wednesday night, the Trump administration fired dozens of employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according ...
With Attack on Consumer Bureau, Musk Removes Obstacle to His ‘X Money’ Vision
Former officials at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Elon Musk’s payment-business aspirations were driving his ...
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is Musk's next target
Members of Elon Musk’s team have reportedly descended upon the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the latest target of ...