Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget and the acting director of CFPB, ordered the federal watchdog ...

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

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

President Trump and other critics of the agency say it needs to be shut down. Supporters of the agency point to its record of protecting consumers.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all its work, ...

The Trump administration's latest move is targeting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, aiming to strip its power and ...

These scams start small and quickly “snowball” into a more elaborate scheme, chaining different techniques together.

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

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