The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created after the 2008 financial crisis to be an advocate for American consumers. The Trump administration is making a push to gut the agency.

One agency that deserves to feel the horns of the bull-in-the-china-shop-in-chief is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an ugly mess of structural abnormalities and constitutional ...

The Trump administration insists the financial watchdog is safe for now, but as in administrations past, it can be made into whatever officials want it to be. Senator Warren, who helped create the ...

How shutting down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would impact Americans 02:29. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau remains in limbo after President Donald Trump's attempt to fire ...

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks as Congressional Democrats and CFPB workers hold a rally to protest the closing of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the work-from-home ...

The bureau was created after Congress and President Barack Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, commonly referred to as the Dodd-Frank Act, in July 2010 ...

The CFPB was created in 2010 in response to the financial crisis that triggered the Great Recession. Since Congress established the bureau, it would take an act of Congress to fully dissolve it.

The top officials for enforcement and supervision at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Tuesday they had resigned, citing the Trump's administration decision to halt all activity ...

The watchdog agency we're talking about is the CFPB, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. As its name indicates, its job is to fight financial abuse and fraud on behalf of American consumers.

The closure of the CFPB, established after the 2008 financial crisis, follows a visit Friday by members of Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service team.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau building in Washington on Monday, March 29, 2021. ... usually with a slim majority,” according to The Center for American Progress.