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President Trump and other critics of the agency say it needs to be shut down. Supporters of the agency point to its record of ...

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

Two top leaders of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were removed from their roles Tuesday — in the first staffing ...

Created after Congress and President Barack Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, commonly referred to as the Dodd-Frank Act, in July 2010, the CFPB is an ...

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 ...

The Massachusetts senator invited the tech billionaire to testify at an informal hearing focusing on the Consumer Financial ...

The CFPB has been under fire before. It was first envisioned by now-Sen. Elizabeth Warren, then a professor at Harvard, and ...