The CFPB emerged in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis with the mission of "enforcing federal consumer financial laws and ...

The CFPB is an independent government agency tasked with protecting consumers and enforcing rules for banks, credit unions ...

Rep. Watson Coleman introduces an amendment to protect the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from being dismantled.

The agency—an unelected regulator with a blank check—has spent much of its short life making things harder for the consumers ...

Russ Vought, President Donald Trump’s budget chief, told bureau employees in an email Monday they should “not perform any ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the latest U.S. government agency to have its work halted by the Trump ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was established to root out corporate wrongdoing after the 2008 crash. The Trump administration has moved to weaken it.

The development came after Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, gained access to the CFPB and began a thorough review.

It has been a tumultuous week at the country's consumer finance watchdog, as the Trump administration looks to decimate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The CFPB has returned more than $17 billion to Americans — and dozens of its workers were laid off on Tuesday night ...

WASHINGTON – Russell Vought, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, ordered staffers at the agency to stop all work in an email Saturday night. "I am committed to ...