On Sunday, employees at the CFPB received a two-sentence email from Adam Martinez, the agency's chief operating officer, telling DC employees to work remotely. "The DC Headquarters Building will ...

President Trump's new chief at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau halted all work, ordering employees to stay away ...

WASHINGTON — The nearly 1,700 employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) were told Monday not to come to the office or do any work — as the agency became the latest target of ...

The CFPB is an independent government agency established by Congress in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to protect consumers from corporate fraud and scams. President Trump named Russell ...

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 ...

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 ...

"CFPB RIP," Musk wrote on X on Friday. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal agency designed to prevent another financial crisis and protect people from scams, has halted most of its ...

There was also a flurry of last-minute action by the CFPB in the mortgage space in the waning days of the Biden Administration, which is covered in our most recent monthly Bites. We expect to see ...

She publicly championed its merit after the 2007 mortgage meltdown crisis and was instrumental in getting the CFPB into a sweeping 2010 overhaul of financial regulations. Then-President Barack ...

“Congress built the CFPB, and no one other than Congress, not the president, not Musk, not Vought can shut it down,” Warren said in a video posted to X. Warren and other congressional ...

One CFPB staffer said Monday that every meeting and work item on their calendar, including reviewing investigative actions, had been deleted. “I think at some point, the machinery is going to ...