Elon’s DOGE Attack on Financial Watchdog Coincides With X Pursuit of Digital Wallet
X announced that it had entered into an arrangement with Visa to create a peer-to-peer digital payments system. “Another ...
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The Trump administration has stopped work at the CFPB. Here's what the agency does
It's the main U.S. agency tasked with overseeing the financial products and services used by everyday Americans. The CFPB's ...
Federal judge in Boston says pause on Trump buyout plan still in place until ruling
The judge says the pause will continue until he gives a formal ruling on the matter, which means that the Trump ...
Democrats Rail Against Musk and CFPB Closing: ‘We’re Here to Fight Back’
Democratic lawmakers rallied against President Trump and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau chief Russell Vought, who closed the bureau’s headquarters and ordered staff to halt all of their ...
As Musk, Trump administration target CFPB, Democrats defend consumer watchdog
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent agency formed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to safeguard ...
Secrecy preceded the shutdown of the consumer protection agency’s Washington headquarters
President Donald Trump’s budget chief has sent an email to consumer protection agency employees telling them to stop working.
As he targets the CFPB, Elon Musk looks to dismantle his own potential regulator
Elon Musk has spent years laying the groundwork to transform X into a digital payments platform. Now he appears to be helping dismantle the agency that would oversee it. Over the weekend, the Trump ...
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Latest to Draw DOGE Scrutiny: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The CFPB has been rendered all but inoperative, as OMB Director Russell Vought ordered its employees to stop working on ...
‘This is code red,’ Warren says of Musk targeting CFPB
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says it's returned more than $20 billion to consumers. The world's richest man has ...
Dismantling the CFPB would turn the consumer finance world into the 'wild, wild west,' its former director says
Richard Cordray, the first director of the CFPB, told BI that Elon Musk's call to dismantle the agency is a 'direct conflict ...
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The CFPB may be frozen, but RESPA hasn’t gone away
Regulatory experts weigh in on what Russell Vought’s decision to shut off CFPB funding means for the enforcement of RESPA and ...