The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is refusing to defend Biden administration-era rules in court after its ...

President Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been tapped to direct the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is halting its operations amid Scott Bessent's takeover, according to reports.

President Donald Trump has tasked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent with serving as the acting director of the Consumer ...

President Donald Trump on Monday designated Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent with additional duties as acting director of the ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was told to cease operations on Monday shortly after President Donald Trump ...

CFPB staff was told to refrain from issuing public communications, halt activities including rules and settlements and ...

The secretary replaces Rohit Chopra, who had aggressively sought to expand the bureau’s authority over banks and other ...

Rohit Chopra was one of the more important regulators from the previous Democratic administration who was still on the job ...

Republicans have long criticized the bureau, which they see as an unaccountable regulator with too broad a reach.

In what appears to be yet another move to consolidate parts of the federal government, President Donald Trump has appointed ...

President Donald Trump has fired the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, in the latest purge ...