President Trump and other critics of the agency say it needs to be shut down. Supporters of the agency point to its record of protecting consumers.

The Trump administration is taking steps to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The move could mean less oversight of consumer debt. The CFPB was created after the 2008 financial ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was established to root out corporate wrongdoing after the 2008 crash. The Trump ...

Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget and the acting director of CFPB, ordered the federal watchdog ...

The development came after Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, gained access to the CFPB and began a thorough review.

WASHINGTON - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal agency designed to protect consumers from the banking industry in the wake of the Great Recession, is halting its operations ...