Trump's decision to stop work at the agency appears to have halted compensation, according to the Student Borrower Protection Center in Washington.

The CFPB dropped a series of lawsuits at the end of February as the Trump administration continues to muzzle the federal ...

The Trump administration's decision to put the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on ice has left a $100 million pot ...

The sudden halt to CFPB's works leaves much of consumer finance, from mortgage companies to payment apps, unsupervised.

As the Trump administration hacks away at government agencies, many employees who were cut are left fearing for their future ...

Shuttering the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will leave service members who rely on the agency’s accountability ...

The administration fired the agency’s director and dozens of other employees , but a plan to dismiss most of the CFPB’s more than 1,500 workers was put on hold to allow a judge to rule on a ...

To understand how he did that takes a quick primer in the unique way that the CFPB is funded. It does not get money from Congress, but rather from essentially an allowance from the Federal Reserve.

On February 7, 2025, President Donald Trump appointed Russell Vought to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Shortly after, Vought announced that he had notified the Federal ...

In 2008, the US government used $450,000,000,000 (that’s $450 billion — with a b) of taxpayer money to bail out Wall Street banks that were “too big to fail.” American families who had ...