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 ...

Vought explained that given Trump's significant ... It would also include border wall construction and building border infrastructure, deploying innovative surveillance technology to the border ...

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.

Russell Vought testifies during the Senate Banking Committee nomination hearing in the Dirksen ... [+] Senate Building on January 22 in Washington, DC. Feb. 10Vought told employees in the email ...

Vought blamed the staff’s protests for the rationale behind closing the office. “Those protests involve large and disruptive gatherings outside of the CFPB Headquarters building, even though ...