The rule would have removed more than $49 billion in medical bills from the credit reports of about 15 million Americans, the ...

Congress should not have created the CFPB. Multiple federal agencies already existed to enforce consumer protection laws. The ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, led by President Trump’s administration, has dropped a case against Navy Federal ...

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

NEW YORK (AP) — Senate Republicans have moved to cut the funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by roughly half, ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, is a government agency created to oversee the consumer finance industry, including banks, lenders and other financial institutions.

The CFPB was created in 2010 in response to the financial crisis that triggered the Great Recession. Since Congress established the bureau, it would take an act of Congress to fully dissolve it.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to shutter for a week The closure of the independent watchdog follows a visit Friday by members of Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service team. February 9, 2025 ...

Since the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened its doors in 2011, the watchdog has been at the center of legal fights over mortgage regulations, student loans, forced arbitration and ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, originally the brainchild of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., was created after the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 to protect consumers by ensuring ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is in the spotlight this week thanks to a leadership fight over control of the financial watchdog agency. The battle started last Friday when CFPB’s ...