Consumer Finance Protection Bureau acting director Russell Vought said the agency will not close. “The predicate to running a ‘more streamlined and efficient bureau’ is that there will continue to be ...

In court on Monday, a high-ranking CFPB official offered new details into DOGE's efforts to scale back the bureau.

A top Consumer Financial Protection Bureau official expressed surprise that employees had stopped performing mandatory duties ...

The Justice Department said in a legal brief that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will continue to exist, but said instead that the agency will have fewer employees and a reduced budget under ...

Advisers from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency embedded with the agency in early February, and Vought ... CFPB’s own staff” outside the building, Vought said.

In President Donald Trump’s first term, Russell Vought was a largely behind-the-scenes player who eventually became director of the influential but underappreciated Office of Management and Budget.