The 5 Worst Things About the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The agency—an unelected regulator with a blank check—has spent much of its short life making things harder for the consumers it set out to protect.
What does having the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on hold mean for consumers?
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the latest U.S. government agency to have its work halted by the Trump administration.
Trump has subdued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. So what does this agency do?
President Trump and other critics of the agency say it needs to be shut down. Supporters of the agency point to its record of protecting consumers.
How America's chief consumer-protection agency came into the Trump administration's crosshairs
While business groups have long lamented actions taken by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Trump and his allies want to dismantle the agency wholesale.
If your bank rips you off, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau gets your money back. Elon Musk is killing it
If your bank rips you off, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau gets your money back. Elon Musk is killing it - The CFPB has returned more than $17 billion to Americans — and dozens of its workers
Trump administration orders consumer protection agency to stop work, closes building
The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all its work, effectively shutting down the agency that was created to protect consumers after the 2008 financial crisis and subprime mortgage-lending scandal.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ordered to stop work: What to know about the agency
Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget and the acting director of CFPB, ordered the federal watchdog to stop work.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Harms Those Whom It Claims to Protect
If President Trump is looking for a federal agency to abolish, he needs to look no further than the misnamed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Trump Administration closes Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The agency was created to ensure fair and transparent financial services and products. Trump wants the Department of Education to be closed 'immediately.' Here's what shutting it down would mean.
US consumer protection bureau upheaval leaves consumers adrift, experts say
The job of policing financial firms for compliance with consumer protection laws has functionally disappeared,
Trump admin creates snitch line for companies to report CFPB staff protecting consumers
Russ Vought, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), confirmed that the Trump administration has set up a "tip line" for companies to snitch on employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) who are doing their jobs despite a work stoppage order.
What Cuts to the CFPB Could Mean For Consumers
The CFP also prosecutes companies that it says fail to protect consumers. In December, it filed a lawsuit against the ...
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Q&A: Will States Take the Lead in Consumer Protection?
Rohit Chopra was dismissed as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), with Secretary Scott ...