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 ...

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 ...

Demonstrators gathered in a courtyard outside the CFPB's headquarters near the White House, chanting slogans like "Let us work," and "Who are we? CFPB! What do we do? Work for you!" The consumer ...

An appeals court has again temporarily halted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's small-business lending rule after the CFPB declined to argue against the stay, an about-face that gives a ...

In a separate email sent Sunday morning, also viewed by The Post, Adam Martinez, the CFPB’s chief operating officer, informed staff that the agency’s Washington headquarters would be closed ...

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.

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 ...

Some believe the CFPB has acted too aggressively or that its functions could be better filled in another way. Acting director Russell Vought recently instructed staff to suspend most operations.

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 ...

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 ...