The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has come to a screeching halt under its new acting head, Scott Bessent.

President Donald Trump appointed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection ...

The halt means the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will cease crafting regulations or enforcing any rules or ...

The departure of the CFPB director comes as congressional Republicans look at changes to the agency and Democrats defend it.

The bureau's now-former director, widely expected to be fired — arguably earlier — by the Trump administration “has concluded ...

In a familiar move, President Donald Trump has designated the current head of another executive agency, this time newly sworn ...

The Trump administration fired CFPB Director Rohit Chopra on Feb. 1, prompting questions regarding pending cases and the ...

President Trump fired Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Saturday.

Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent is picking up another leadership role as President Donald Trump named Bessent Acting ...

WASHINGTON, DC -Rohit Chopra has been removed as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), ending his five ...

With Rohit Chopra gone, Republicans have the mechanisms to overturn some of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's most ...

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau faces uncertainty as acting director, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, halts activities under directives from President Trump. The move follows the ...