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

The lawsuit had accused the company of providing kickbacks to real estate brokers and agents who directed homebuyers to ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly ... Russell Vought, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Congress established ... Russell Vought, the newly installed director of the Office of Management and Budget, told the CFPB last weekend ...

The Trump administration insists the financial watchdog is safe for now, but as in administrations past, it can be made into ...

The Trump administration intended to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau through a mass workforce reduction, which ...

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

Almost immediately after the Senate named Russ Vought Office of Management and Budget director ... him the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The Consumer Financial ...

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 new boss at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had a jarring ... confirmed by the Senate last week to lead the Office of Management and Budget in the Trump White House.

The order to shutter the agency’s headquarters follows another order issued Saturday by Mr. Vought, who also leads the Office of Management ... at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...