Fend for Yourself: Under Trump, Consumer Protection Bureau’s Probes of Big Tech and Finance Firms Freeze Up
Companies may avoid consequences for alleged wrongdoing as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau drops lawsuits against ...
Wall Street Journal14d
Trump Harms Consumers by Weakening the CFPB
Free Expression: Judging by Democrats' reaction at USAID, the Treasury and the Department of Education, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency looks less DOGE and more DOGA, a ...
The Verge14d
A judge could save America’s financial watchdog
The testimony came from a top agency executive and two additional CFPB employees, representing opposing viewpoints. The government tried to demonstrate that early chaos at the bureau had settled ...
Yahoo Finance14d
Ex-CFPB ombudsman’s message to federal student loan borrowers: ‘Demand’ what you’re ‘legally entitled to’
Until Barnard — the last student loan ombudsman at the hotly-contested Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) — was abruptly (and some argue, illegally) fired by the Trump Administration ...
CNET14d
Crippling the CFPB Could Hurt Consumers and Loosen Regulations for Financial Giants
"Staff were told by senior executives that the CFPB would be eliminated except for the five statutorily mandated positions," a current CFPB employee testified under the pseudonym Drew Doe.
Des Moines Register14d
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s financial firm oversight still blocked, email says
The apparent decision to keep supervision inert could run counter to claims the CFPB has made in court that it remains committed to meeting its legal obligations. The agency has denied in ...
ConsumerAffairs15d
CFPB inaction harming state consumer protection efforts, Democratic AGs allege
The lawsuit, filed by the NTEU and several advocacy groups, seeks a court order requiring the CFPB to resume operations, arguing that halting the agency’s work violates the Administrative ...
Kennebec Journal15d
Opinion: Susan Collins should have protected the CFPB
To understand why this agency was such a target, let’s ask what the CFPB has meant to Mainers. From 2011 to 2023, it took action on behalf of 5,440 Mainers, 653 of them servicemembers ...
The Hill15d
CFPB employees say mass firing plans remain in place
Two employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) testified Tuesday that top officials’ plans to fire hundreds of workers remain intact, as a federal judge weighs whether to block ...
CNN15d
Whistleblower testifies in court that plan to abolish CFPB is still on, countering administration’s narrative
Doe’s testimony countered the picture painted by CFPB Chief Operating Officer Adam Martinez, who spoke as a witness for the administration Monday and Tuesday. Martinez — who is Doe’s ...