WGBH15h
Sweeping cuts hit recent federal hires as Trump administration slashes workforce
Employees across several agencies, including the Office of Personnel Management, the Department of Education and Department ...
Business Insider6d
'CFPB RIP': Musk and Trump's plans to shrink an agency that cracks down on medical debt and overdraft fees are underway
"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 ...
New York Post4d
CFPB’s 1,700 employees told to ‘not perform any work’ as Obama-era agency becomes latest Trump target
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 ...
Politico5d
Vought cuts off CFPB funding, saying it’s not necessary to run the agency
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 ...
Forbes4d
Trump Vs. CFPB: Russ Vought Orders Consumer Financial Protection Bureau To Stop Work
Feb. 9The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents CFPB employees, sued Vought, asking a judge to stop him from halting the bureau’s work and alleging he granted staffers from Musk ...
Business Insider4d
The CFPB tells its workers to 'not perform any work tasks' this week while it shuts down its DC headquarters
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 ...
CBS News4d
Federal employees union files lawsuits over CFPB shutdown and DOGE access
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 ...
The Washington Post4d
White House targets CFPB as union sues over work stoppage
The public broadside arrived hours after Russell Vought — the White House budget chief tapped by President Donald Trump to serve as acting CFPB director — halted more of the bureau’s ...
Inc6d
CFPB Workers Protest New Leadership
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 ...
NPR6d
New CFPB chief closes headquarters, tells all staff they must not do 'any work tasks'
The new directive from the CFPB's acting director, Russell Vought, on Monday comes after the agency closed the bureau's Washington headquarters for the week and told staff to work remotely.
The Hill4d
Warren: Reported effort to shutter CFPB ‘another scam’
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Monday slammed the Trump administration’s reported efforts to shutter the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) as “another scam.” “If you have a ...