The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a consumer watchdog agency formed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Elon ...

In a desperately needed move this week, President Donald Trump fired Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial ...

The president has named Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on an acting basis ...

The staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was instructed by email to cease much of its work. Bessent, a wealthy ...

On January 31, 2025, the CFPB announced President Donal Trump had appointed Scott Bessent as Acting Director of the CFPB. In a brief ...

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

President Donald Trump designated Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent as Acting Director of the Consumer Financial ...

The Trump administration said Scott Bessent, the recently appointed Treasury secretary, will also serve as acting director for the CFPB.

Bessent directed CFPB staff to stop all rulemaking and suspend the effective dates of rules that haven’t gone into effect yet, in an email to agency staff on Monday obtained by POLITICO.

As expected, the Trump administration formally terminated CFPB director Rohit Chopra over the weekend. And also as expected, President Trump used ...

Also see: Trump pausing tariffs on Mexico for a month, duties still in place for Canada, China The Trump administration has yet to decide whether Bessent will handoff oversight of the CFPB to ...

In an email, Bessent instructed the CFPB staff to stop working on enforcement actions and to suspend the effective dates for rules not yet in effect. That follows the ouster of Biden appointee ...