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

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a longtime target of the Republican Party that has undergone a significant shakeup in recent weeks, will continue operating, the Trump administration says. After Trump replaced its director with Russell Vought — director of the White House budget office and an author of Project 2025 — work at the CFPB was frozen.

Former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Richard Cordray ... of the enforcement cases brought under former President Joe Biden's administration, according to Reuters.

The embattled U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday asked a federal court to issue a stay in its enforcement action against Comerica Bank, court papers showed. In the final days of former President Joe Biden's administration,

The housing crisis and subsequent financial crisis in 2008 was caused in large part by politicizing loan eligibility criteria, advancing social justice objectives over sound economics. Unfortunately,