It’s taken just a few weeks in office, but the Trump administration’s apparent vision for economic populism is coming into focus: a blueprint for mass layoffs, creeping inflation, and a dissolution of consumer safeguards reviled by many wealthy Republican donors and politicians.

About a dozen agency workers testify on a three-phase “wind-down mode,” ahead of a hearing that may hold the bureau’s future in the balance.

Given recent turmoil at the CFPB, Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Jonathan McKernan – nominated to lead the agency – seems “lined up to be the No. 1 horse at the glue factory.”

In a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Self encouraged the inclusion of a bill that would strip the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau of its funding. It’s a step the Texas ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is in the midst of a complete ... Separately, a resolution introduced Feb. 13 in the House Financial Services Committee seeks to roll back the overdraft ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump's pick to oversee a consumer watchdog faced a grilling from Democrats in the U.S. Senate on Thursday as the White House presses ahead with aggressive efforts to dismantle the agency.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday dropped ... A district judge has temporarily blocked the White House from firing staff or deleting agency data, pending a March 3 hearing ...

US District Judge John Bates highlighted the DOGE office's "unclear" structure and authority as keys to the legal decision.

Speaking at President Donald Trump’s first Cabinet meeting of his second term on Wednesday, Elon Musk defended the directive, calling it a “pulse check review.”