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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"CFPB RIP," Musk wrote on X on Friday ... misguided regulatory actions and stand ready to support his efforts to chart a better course for the Bureau," he said in a statement.

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 ...

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 actions began last Thursday, when four young staffers working under Musk for the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, showed up at CFPB’s Washington headquarters. At first ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Monday slammed the Trump administration’s reported efforts to shutter the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) as “another scam.” “If you have a ...

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 ...

A top member of the President Donald Trump administration ended all CFPB enforcement activities, according to the lawsuits. Trump named his budget chief Russell Vought as the CFPB acting director.