A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from effectively dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection ...

The CFPB said it will not enforce or supervise any payday, vehicle title or high-cost installment lenders and plans to issue no fines or penalties associated with the rule. It is unclear if the bureau ...

“There would be no competition because there would be no jobs to compete for,” said Alex Doe, a CFPB employee who was allowed to testify under a pseudonym. Matthew Pfaff, chief of staff for ...

“For those who face urgent situations—e.g., a person who submits a complaint about losing their home to an imminent foreclosure—there is simply no one at the CFPB to help.” But that’s ...

A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction blocking efforts to shut down the CFPB. The court found that Trump administration officials were actively trying to eliminate the agency.

and that there’d been no change in plans even after the judge had previously ordered a pause on further firings. Updated March 18th, 2025: Added the number of reinstated workers at the CFPB as ...

All of those breakthroughs, of course, happened before Donald Trump took office and appointed his right-wing budget director, Russell Vought, to oversee the CFPB. As The New York Times reported ...

"There is no act of Congress that empowers the President to shut down the CFPB in his discretion," Berman Jackson wrote in the 112-page order. "This is precisely the sort of situation preliminary ...

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Amy Berman Jackson granted plaintiffs' preliminary injunction motion to stop the CFPB's dissolution by its director, Russell Vought ...

“Defendants shall not terminate any CFPB employee, except for cause related ... cheered the ruling. “Make no mistake: this fight isn’t over,” she said in a statement.

The temporary injunction from Judge Amy Berman Jackson at the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., also prevents the administration from firing any more CFPB workers or from deleting any of ...

In a surprise move this week, however, the CFPB asked a court to undo its settlement and dismiss the case, claiming it had discovered “significant undisclosed problems” with the investigation ...