Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work….

Restoring full funding and removing Vought would allow the bureau to do the job Congress assigned it.

A federal judge ordered Russell T. Vought, the bureau’s acting director, to keep requesting funds for the financial watchdog’s operations. By Stacy Cowley To comply with a federal judge’s order that ...

Russell Vought has agreed to request funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, capitulating to a judge's order that would have held him in contempt if he failed to fund the agency. On ...

The first few months of Donald Trump’s second term saw steep cuts and mass layoffs across all sectors of the federal government, led largely by Elon Musk and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought in ...

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work…. We want to put them in trauma.” —Russell Vought, May 2023 “[The Center ...