Federal judge rules Trump administration must secure CFPB funding after blocking shutdown attempts. Consumer protection ...

A federal judge has rejected a claim by the Trump administration that it is barred from funding a consumer watchdog agency.

In the weeks since President Trump's return to office, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, long a target of conservatives, landed in the crosshairs of Elon Musk's DOGE, or Department of ...

Russell Vought’s dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is putting the public at risk in areas ranging from auto loans and digital payments to credit cards and credit reports. Two ...

The Trump administration had tried to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which acts as a guardrail for the ...

DALLAS — When Elon Musk posted “CFPB RIP” with a tombstone emoji on X earlier this month, it set off a chain-of-events that continues to threaten the agency’s future. The Consumer Financial Protection ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been quiet since the early days of the second Trump presidency, when the administration stopped work at the agency and told staffers to stay home. But ...

A federal appeals court will allow the Trump administration to further shrink the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau but not dismantle it entirely. The Friday evening order from the US DC Circuit ...

CFPB ensures financial markets fairness, focusing on rule enforcement and consumer education. Established post-2008 crisis, CFPB centralizes oversight of banking/lending practices. Investors benefit ...

The agency, which has returned $21 billion to consumers since its inception, could lose 1,500 of its 1,700 employees, a union warned. By Stacy Cowley The Trump administration sent layoff notices on ...

In the same way people don’t think about their plumbing until a deathly stench rises from their shower drain, most of us have gotten used to the safeguards afforded by the federal Consumer Financial ...