The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a watchdog agency created to protect consumers, is under fire by President Trump and DOGE. Its new head ordered work to stop and funding to end.

Probationary employees (a class of government workers who are newer to an agency or role) received letters over the weekend ...

Only Congress can eliminate the CFPB, and some of Trump's efforts to shut it down have been halted by the courts. Even a less ...

The Trump administration is well on its way to abolishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau while state officials and ...

At a court hearing Monday, CFPB’s COO Adam Martinez gave a sworn account of the chaos that has consumed the federal agency ...

A Consumer Financial Protection Bureau official charged with laying off the agency’s staff said the Trump administration ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was launched in 2011 in response to the 2008 banking crisis, which destabilized millions of Americans. This new U.S. government agency' ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is meant to protect us from predatory finance. That’s why Trump wants it gone.

A federal judge said she is inclined to issue a preliminary injunction to stop the Trump administration dismantling the ...

Two employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) testified Tuesday that top officials’ plan to fire hundreds of workers remain intact, as a federal judge weighs whether to ...

The CFPB has cut 17% of its employees under the Trump administration ... planned a first round of layoffs targeting 1,175 ...