President Donald Trump nominated Jonathan McKernan to be director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in an indication that he wants more than an acting head at an agency that his ...

A federal judge Friday temporarily stopped the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from continuing mass firings of employees, throwing up an initial roadblock to President Donald Trump’s fast ...

NEW YORK — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Congress established to monitor credit card companies, mortgage providers, debt collectors and other segments of the consumer finance ...

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. Now ...

Here's some background on the scope of the CFPB's activities and how the agency's tenuous status might affect consumers.

A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from firing employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) amid a larger push to effectively dismantle the agency.

The job cuts are being imposed unilaterally, without the approval of Congress to shrink or overhaul federal agencies.

To Jonathon Booth, it’s simply the agency that helped him get $17 back. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is in the crosshairs of a White House that has halted its work, closed its ...

A federal judge in Washington temporarily ordered the Trump administration to halt efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Friday, barring officials from laying off ...

In the latest federal shake-up, the Trump administration ordered the heads of several agencies across the government to start firing employees who were still within their probationary period — or ...

The Trump administration on Friday agreed temporarily not to lay off or arbitrarily fire any employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau or otherwise take actions to shutter the agency.

This past week the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) stopped operations and halted funding to the agency. Born out of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and ...