Acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Russell Vought said all diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility ...

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

Ahead of a court hearing, the top lawyer at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says he ordered supervisory staff to get back to work. But examiners and supervisors are disputing that work is ...

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.” ...

A Biden-appointed judge was wary of overstepping his authority to block what he said was not a “final agency action” by the CFPB.

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.” ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

In his capacity as acting director, Bessent reportedly issued the following orders to CFPB staff: Russell Vought then was appointed ... supervision and examination activity cease all stakeholder ...

(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 ...

Enforcement activity has ground ... Trump allies including Russell Vought, the head of the Office of Management and Budget and acting director of the CFPB, were seen as concerned that DOGE ...