Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has ordered staffers at the agency to stop all work after it saw ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a federal agency in Washington that ensures fair treatment for financial consumers. It enforces federal consumer financial laws, supervises financial ...

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 ...

What Happened? On May 12, 2026, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the appointment of former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...

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 ...

Protesters rally outside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on February 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. Senior Correspondent For a long time, Misty Castaneda had terrible credit. Even though ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a longtime target of the Republican Party that has undergone a significant shakeup in recent weeks, will continue operating, the Trump administration says.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the latest government agency potentially on President Donald Trump’s chopping block. Not only did Trump fire Rohit Chopra, who headed the independent agency ...

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Ron Rubin, a lawyer and writer who used to work for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, discusses the nature of the federal agency with The Daily Signal’s Genevieve Wood. What follows is an ...