The ruling from a federal court in Washington, D.C., is a reprieve for CFPB staff who had been bracing for mass layoffs as early as Friday.

A federal judge on Friday ordered a temporary halt to the Trump administration’s attempts to slash jobs and dismantle the ...

Agency workers, including some who were listening to the hearing remotely, expressed immediate joy and relief.

A federal judge in Washington temporarily ordered the Trump administration to halt efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Friday, barring officials from laying off ...

The Trump administration is planning to hollow out the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) by firing 95% of its staff while canceling the lease on its Washington, D.C., headquarters, according ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he views proposals to "audit the Fed" floated by Elon Musk and others last week as a ...

The White House moved to close the Consumer Financial Protection Board, which fielded 100,000 consumer complaints every month ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Congress established to monitor credit card companies, mortgage providers, debt collectors and other segments of the consumer finance industry, is the ...

The House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday morning on “The Federal Reserve’s Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report.” ...

Jerome H. Powell testifies as inflation risks are resurfacing, regulatory changes are in flux and the Federal Reserve’s ...

The edict comes as Russell Vought takes over at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Vought has ordered work to halt at ...

CFPB employees must "get approval in writing" to do any work this week, acting director Russell Vought wrote in an email.