The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was established to root out corporate wrongdoing after the 2008 crash. The Trump administration has moved to weaken it.

The closure of the CFPB, established after the 2008 financial crisis, follows a visit Friday by members of Elon Musk’s U.S.

Emoji date back to 1999 when they first appeared on Japanese cell phones. But it’s history goes further than that, because ...

Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget and the acting director of CFPB, ordered the federal watchdog ...

In an email to staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency’s acting director ordered workers to cease “all ...

Russell Vought, the newly installed acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, sent an email Saturday night ...

This is like a bank robber trying to fire the cops and turn off the alarms before he strolls in the lobby,’ Elizabeth Warren ...

Russ Vought, President Donald Trump’s budget chief, told bureau employees in an email Monday they should “not perform any ...

A judge said in a ruling Friday that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could not terminate employees without cause, ...

Musk posted “CFPB RIP” with a tombstone emoji on his social media site X ... The CFPB polices a wide array of financial institutions and nonbank companies. It was conceived by then-law ...

Members of Elon Musk’s team have reportedly descended upon the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the latest target of Musk and President Donald Trump.

The Trump administration has effectively shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The bureau’s acting director, Russell Vought, who was the architect of Project 2025, has closed the ...