"Working families need the CFPB, especially as rising prices are making it hard to make ends meet and put food on the table." ...

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WASHINGTON — The nearly 1,700 employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) were told Monday not to come to ...

Federal Reserve that the CFPB would not be taking its next funding draw “because it is not ‘reasonably necessary’ to carry ...

In addition, Berman, an appointee of President Barack Obama, prohibited the Trump administration from destroying or removing any of the CFPB’s vast troves of data, which includes consumer ...

President Trump supercharged his overhaul of government agencies this week that included a fresh round of a widespread ...

A federal judge on Friday extended a temporary order that prevents Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency team from ...

The CFPB was launched in 2011 under President Barack Obama following the housing industry meltdown that devastated the global economy. The agency's mission: to protect Americans from abuse by ...

It's the main U.S. agency tasked with overseeing the financial products and services used by everyday Americans. The CFPB's ...

The CFPB has been under fire before. It was first envisioned by now-Sen. Elizabeth Warren, then a professor at Harvard, and created after President Obama proposed a financial agency to focus on ...