DOGE says it has saved government $55B so far
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in a post on its website says it has found $55 billion in savings through a combination of efforts, including a reduction in the federal workforce.
Consumers don't need more hidden fees, tricky loans, or a repeat of the financial crisis
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been a go-to financial agency for dealing with bad practices. Trump administration wants to end it.
What does having the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on hold mean for consumers?
Here's some background on the scope of the CFPB's activities and how the agency's tenuous status might affect consumers.
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Trump former DOJ lawyer Jeffrey Clark joins the CFPB
The Trump administration has installed Jeffrey Clark at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Clark, a former ...
Judge blocks mass layoffs at consumer protection agency targeted by Trump
The Trump administration has agreed to pause its campaign of layoffs and funding cuts at the Consumer Financial Protection ...
Layoffs halted at CFPB for now as judge considers union’s lawsuit
Although a federal judge issued an order confirming a temporary hold on layoffs at the consumer watchdog agency, its staffers ...
Consumer watchdog agency called ‘vicious’ by Trump seen as a ‘hero’ to many it aided
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is in the crosshairs of a White House that has halted its work, closed its ...
New CFPB leadership agrees to hold off on mass firings while lawsuit proceeds
Lawyers representing the acting director of the CFPB reached an agreement during a court conference Friday to temporarily ...
Judge Orders Freeze on Firing Consumer Bureau’s Staff and Deleting Its Data
Agency workers, including some who were listening to the hearing remotely, expressed immediate joy and relief.
Judge Halts CFPB Action After Alleged Plans to Delete Database
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to delay the deletion of data after the agency’s ...
CFPB Agrees to Pause Rumored Workforce Layoffs, Data Purge (1)
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employees got at least a two-week reprieve from an expected culling of the workforce ...
DOGE is rocking Washington. Wall Street, not so much.
Just a few weeks into the DOGE operation, there has been no shortage of provocative claims by Elon Musk about the effort he’s leading to radically reshape the federal government, scale back oversight ...