The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was established to root out corporate wrongdoing after the 2008 crash. The Trump administration has moved to weaken it.

Politics & Elections What’s at stake if Consumer Financial Protection Bureau goes dark Published: Feb. 21, 2025, 10:09 a.m.

The watchdog agency we're talking about is the CFPB, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. As its name indicates, its job is to fight financial abuse and fraud on behalf of American consumers.

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

The bureau has been ordered to deprioritize subjects including consumer data, digital payments, medical debt and student loans. Mortgages will now be the leading topic for remaining employees.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is among the many federal agencies whose future is unclear. A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to shut it down ...

Established in the wake of the Great Recession, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a government agency intended to do exactly what its name states: protect consumers financially by ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been a go-to financial agency for dealing with bad practices. Trump administration wants to end it.

People attend a protest in support of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Monday, Feb. 10, 2025, at the CFPB headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) more > ...

People attend a protest in support of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) headquarters, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025, at the CFPB in Washington. AP How are consumer advocates responding?

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