WASHINGTON — The nearly 1,700 employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) were told Monday not to come to the office or do any work — as the agency became the latest target of ...

Russell Vought, the acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is halting the flow of new funding to the agency and shutting down its headquarters, the latest threat to the CFPB’s ...

Feb. 9The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents CFPB employees, sued Vought, asking a judge to stop him from halting the bureau’s work and alleging he granted staffers from Musk ...

On Sunday, employees at the CFPB received a two-sentence email from Adam Martinez, the agency's chief operating officer, telling DC employees to work remotely. "The DC Headquarters Building will ...

"CFPB RIP," Musk wrote on X on Friday. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal agency designed to prevent another financial crisis and protect people from scams, has halted most of its ...

The public broadside arrived hours after Russell Vought — the White House budget chief tapped by President Donald Trump to serve as acting CFPB director — halted more of the bureau’s ...

The CFPB is an independent government agency established by Congress in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to protect consumers from corporate fraud and scams. President Trump named Russell ...

Senate Building on January 22 in Washington, DC. The move came after CFPB’s X account, formerly available at @CFPB, appeared to be taken offline—telling users “This account doesn’t exist ...

The new directive from the CFPB's acting director, Russell Vought, on Monday comes after the agency closed the bureau's Washington headquarters for the week and told staff to work remotely.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) headquarters in Washington, D.C. Photo: Getty Images About 100 workers at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau protested outside the agency’s ...

The source told CNN that DOGE officials have been granted administrative access to CFPB systems, including content management system, back-end systems for the bureau’s website and the active ...