The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a federal agency in Washington that ensures fair treatment for financial consumers. It enforces federal consumer financial laws, supervises financial ...

An appeals court will decide if further cuts can be made to the CFPB, a key agency tasked with protecting consumers ...

A federal judge has rejected a claim by the Trump administration that it is barred from funding a consumer watchdog agency.

The Trump administration has ordered work stoppages and layoffs and has tried cutting off funding to effectively dismantle ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is drastically shrinking the workforce and mission of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, eviscerating an agency created after the Great Recession with ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was one of the early targets of the Trump administration's attempts to dramatically reduce government spending. The bureau's work was first suspended in early ...

The agency, which has returned $21 billion to consumers since its inception, could lose 1,500 of its 1,700 employees, a union warned. By Stacy Cowley The Trump administration sent layoff notices on ...

Killing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is an ill-advised move. — -- Just beyond the Trump swelter of the hour, lawmakers have been busy concocting plans to dismantle key achievements of ...

The ruling targets a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule that would have removed medical debt from 15 million credit reports. A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A federal judge has rejected a claim by President Donald Trump's administration that it is legally barred from securing funding ...