President Donald Trump's newly installed chief of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday directed all of the ...

The CFPB protects consumers by analyzing the practices of large financial institutions like banks, lenders, credit unions, and debt collectors to ensure they are not improperly targeting consumers.

"CFPB RIP," Musk wrote on X on Friday ... misguided regulatory actions and stand ready to support his efforts to chart a better course for the Bureau," he said in a statement.

UPDATE: This story was updated Sunday night to include the news that the CFPB headquarters has been ordered closed this week. 1. Stop all supervision activity that has not been approved by the ...

The top officials for enforcement and supervision at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Tuesday they had ...

Russell Vought, the newly installed director of the Office of Management and Budget, directed the CFPB, in a Saturday night email confirmed by The Associated Press, to stop work on proposed rules ...

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) headquarters in Washington, D.C. Photo: Getty Images About 100 workers at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau protested outside the agency’s ...

Musk’s team on Friday entered the headquarters of the CFPB, an agency that the billionaire Donald Trump adviser has personally targeted, according to three people familiar with their actions.

Tierney L. Cross / Bloomberg via Getty Images Russell Vought took over as CFPB's acting chief last week Issuing a dozen directives Saturday, Vought asked CFPB staff to pause investigations and ...

Senate Building on January 22 in Washington, DC. The move came after CFPB’s X account, formerly available at @CFPB, appeared to be taken offline—telling users “This account doesn’t exist ...

Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is quickly seeking to crack down on the activities of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), preventing it from drawing down more ...

The new directive from the CFPB's acting director, Russell Vought, on Monday comes after the agency closed the bureau's Washington headquarters for the week and told staff to work remotely.