A federal judge signed off on the agreement as she weighs the legality of the administration's efforts to shutter the agency.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau hurts consumers by overregulating lenders. The Trump administration should shut it ...

Although a federal judge issued an order confirming a temporary hold on layoffs at the consumer watchdog agency, its staffers ...

Agency workers, including some who were listening to the hearing remotely, expressed immediate joy and relief.

A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from firing employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...

President Trump supercharged his overhaul of government agencies this week that included a fresh round of a widespread ...

An obscure court decision involving former President Joe Biden’s presidential board appointments was the key to seizing ...

A federal judge Friday temporarily stopped the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from continuing mass firings of employees, throwing up an initial roadblock to President Donald Trump’s fast-moving ...

Though Republicans control the White House, Senate and House of Representatives, tight margins may help tether acceptance of federal power grabs to reality.

A federal judge in Washington temporarily ordered the Trump administration to halt efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Friday, barring officials from laying off ...

An Obama judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from firing Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) employees.

The freeze order went out, then was rescinded but the spigot isn’t open. “We are grateful that order did not go through, as a significant proportion of funding for county services ...