Nominating McKernan to lead the CFPB suggests that, despite the "delete" rhetoric, the consumer watchdog isn't on its way to the kill shelter.

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 ...

"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 ...

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.

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The missive appeared to herald a stark shift for the CFPB, a powerful agency formed in the wake of the 2008 banking crisis to protect consumers from unfair, deceptive or predatory financial practices.

Three DOGE team membersChristopher Young, Nikhil Rajpal, and Gavin Kligerarrived at the CFPB’s Washington office, the CFPB employees union NTEU 335 said in a Friday statement. The move comes mon ...