President Trump’s newly installed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau chief Russell Vought ordered staff to halt all of ...

The agency had been one of Wall Street’s most feared regulators, with the power to issue rules on mortgages, credit cards, ...

Russell Vought took over as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday night and officials from ...

DC employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau received an email from the agency on Sunday telling them to work ...

Russell Vought, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new acting director, ordered staff to stop all work and closed the ...

This spigot, long contributing to CFPB's unaccountability, is now being turned off,” he wrote on X Saturday evening.

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Washington headquarters will be closed for the coming week, according to a ...

Russell Vought, the new acting director of the CFPB, is shutting down most of its functions and has cut off its funding.

Trump fired the CFPB’s Biden-era leader earlier this week, putting in place Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who froze the ...

Vought was an architect of Project 2025. He takes over at the consumer finance watchdog as he orders a pause in most of the agency's activities, and promises to cut spending.

Two days after DOGE head Elon Musk posted “CFPB RIP” on X, employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau headquarters ...

In a quick, one-week succession following U.S. Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent’s appointment as acting director of the Consumer ...