The Trump administration came to Washington last year seeking to shutter the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the ...

The billionaire Elon Musk and the California venture capitalist Marc Andreessen have started a debate about the role of government that we should be having — but it might not go the way they would ...

Deletion of the bureau’s website content is just the most recent part of a larger plan to ‘undermine an agency that’s helped people’ ...

President Trump has appointed Brian Johnson as the next director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a role he ...

On Saturday, February 1, Rohit Chopra was dismissed as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), with Secretary Scott Bessent appointed as Acting Director that same day. The ...

The CFPB, created in the wake of the 2008 banking crisis, has been under steady attack in 2025. Updated on July 28. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been the subject of numerous efforts to ...

Update: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on May 16, 2024, that the funding mechanism authorized by Congress for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau through the Federal Reserve Board is constitutional ...

Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's newly installed head of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, instructed staff on Saturday evening to suspend all activities including the supervision ...

Arbitrary financial regulation "cliffs," such as the one imposed by the Durbin Amendment, create incentives that distort ...

NEW YORK — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Congress established to monitor credit card companies, mortgage providers, debt collectors and other segments of the consumer finance ...