By Stacy Cowley President Trump plans to drop his nomination for Jonathan McKernan to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, leaving the agency in the hands of a temporary director as Mr ...

The Trump administration is in a battle over how far it can scale back the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Here’s what ...

Roughly 1,500 employees — or almost 90% of the agency's staff — will be cut from the CFPB, leaving around 200 people, according to an administration official who wasn't authorized to disclose the ...

An agency lawyer and union representative opens up about the Trump/Musk rampage on the CFPB, what happens next, and why he’s ...

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered an immediate halt to the planned firings of nearly 1,500 employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

By Stacy Cowley The Trump administration sent layoff notices on Thursday to a large swath of employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, just days after a federal appeals court pared ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been reduced to a skeleton crew. The department, which was created to oversee banks and financial institutions, has cut about 1,500 jobs, leaving about ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was one of the early targets of the Trump administration's attempts to dramatically reduce government spending. The bureau's work was first suspended in ...