Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued a preliminary injunction Friday afternoon that requires the Trump administration to reinstate any terminated CFPB employees, rescind the cancellation of any ...

In the weeks since President Trump's return to office, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, long a target of conservatives, landed in the crosshairs of Elon Musk's DOGE, or Department of ...

News Trump's CFPB: Smaller, Weaker, But Still Standing, Attorneys Say “I think that the Trump administration has been very clearly signaling where it wants the CFPB to go, which is to a much ...

This could be an important tool for the agency, but it is virtually useless in its current state. For years, the CFPB has been collecting and storing sensitive personal financial information.

Although the CFPB, which is tasked with ensuring banks, lenders and other financial companies play fair with consumers, is severely weakened, Americans shouldn’t be too worried about a repeat of ...

CFPB chief is tired of people calling his agency by the wrong name. by Julia Horowitz @juliakhorowitz April 11, ... "The organization is the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection." ...

In February 2025, acting director Russell Vought told CFPB employees to stop working. Elon Musk posted on the social media platform X, "CFPB RIP." By mid-February, a judge temporarily blocked the ...

“If you’re not following direction from your staff to help consumers that are harmed, then you are absolutely worthless.” Kathleen Kraninger, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB ...

CFPB chief is tired of people calling his agency by the wrong name Julia Horowitz. 2 minute read ... “The organization is the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.” ...

Regardless of party, the political leadership of the CFPB should resist short-term incentives to shape both policy and the organization during a four-year time horizon. Instead, it should reinvigorate ...

Like the CFPB, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was also created in the wake of a financial crisis — the Great Depression. It is the agency that insures deposit accounts up to $250,000 .

In 2016, a panel of three judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was unconstitutional. The CFPB has a ...