We previously reported that Treasury Secretary Bessent was named as the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection ...

Richard Cordray, the first director of the CFPB, told BI that Elon Musk's call to dismantle the agency is a 'direct conflict ...

Note the word independent. That is where things get problematic. Because the CFPB is independent, it doesn’t rely on Congress ...

The edict comes as Russell Vought takes over at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Vought has ordered work to halt at ...

Union files two suits on behalf of CFPB employees told to stay home after DOGE accesses systems; new HUD director halts programs tied to “gender identity.” ...

U.S. District Chief Judge John McConnell ruled that the Trump administration’s funding freeze is continuing to violate a ...

Closing the agency was a major recommendation in the conservative manifesto, Project 2025, and Vought, as one of the document ...

Headquarters-based staff will work remotely this week after a new acting chief halted agency supervision and enforcement and ...

On January 31, 2025, the CFPB announced President Donal Trump had appointed Scott Bessent as Acting Director of the CFPB. In a brief ...

As we previously blogged about, Acting Director Scott Bessent circulated a message throughout the CFPB on February 3 directing “…all ...

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Acting Director Russell Vought told agency employees on Monday not to come into work or ...

Russell Vought, the newly appointed head of the CFPB, has suspended the agency’s funding and ordered a halt to its operations ...