In the days before Musk’s DOGE set its sights on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, X revealed plans for a payments ...

The cease-work order at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau won’t just affect lawsuits and enforcement actions. It will ...

With the government's consumer watchdog agency off the job on the orders of President Donald Trump, Democratic lawmakers are ...

The halt of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's activities leaves CFPB rules targeting junk fees in a state of uncertainty.

REPORT Good afternoon! I’m Emily Martin, filling in for Cate on this chilly Tuesday. Inside today’s edition:Trump, Musk go ...

Should You Be Worried About the CFPB Halt? The Trump administration has effectively shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency created after the 2008 financial crisis to protect ...

The CFPB protects consumers by analyzing the practices of large financial institutions like banks, lenders, credit unions, and debt collectors to ensure they are not improperly targeting consumers.

The world’s wealthiest person, Elon Musk, has attacked the CFPB, joining a chorus of tech and finance titans who claim the agency has taken a heavy-handed approach to regulation. Musk ...

Russell Vought, the acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is halting the flow of new funding to the agency and shutting down its headquarters, the latest threat to the CFPB’s ...

In his semiannual testimony before the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the effective shuttering of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau leaves no federal ...

"CFPB RIP," Musk wrote on X on Friday ... misguided regulatory actions and stand ready to support his efforts to chart a better course for the Bureau," he said in a statement.

Russell Vought, the newly installed director of the Office of Management and Budget, directed the CFPB in a Saturday night ... it’s an effective cop on the finance beat and has stood side ...