Since the Trump administration moved to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last month, the bureau has dropped ...

Hundreds of pages of communications show career officials grasping for clarity in the weeks after the CFPB’s acting director, Russ Vought, ordered Feb. 10 a total stoppage of all “work tasks.” ...

Wesley Ward, an Illinois State University alum from Bloomington-Normal, worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has rehired more than 100 fire employees, but the union claims dozens of employees ...

In a two-page email obtained by American Banker, CFPB employees were told that if they disobey Vought's orders, they may face "gross insubordination" and potential civil rights violations. "Any and ...

The bureau’s acting director halted “race-based” activities, forbade pronouns in email signatures and equated noncompliance to “gross insubordination.” ...

Five days later on Feb. 8, Russ Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget and acting director of the bureau, ordered CFPB staff to "cease all supervision and examination activity ...

After acting CFPB Director Russell Vought was appointed in early February, he initially directed employees to cease “all supervision and examination activity” and “shareholder engagement.” ...

The motion came in response to a lawsuit filed by the CFPB union against the Trump administration when Vought ordered workers to stop working. President Donald Trump and DOGE head Elon Musk have ...

That followed an order on February 10 from acting CFPB Director Russell Vought to halt agency activity—any agency business would require approval from legal council and employees were told they ...

“The predicate to running a ‘more streamlined and efficient bureau’ is that there will continue to be a CFPB,” consumer bureau Acting Director Russ Vought said in a motion filed late ...

(A judge has halted those firings, for now). Vought also ordered the bureau to cease all work activity, and the CFPB’s enforcement and supervision chiefs stepped down. Earlier this month ...