Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is quickly seeking to crack down on the activities of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), preventing it from drawing down more ...

The Trump administration is ending diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility efforts at the Consumer Financial ...

"Any and all Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility ('DEIA') activities will cease ... the Trump administration's CFPB officials, including Vought and Mark Paoletta, the bureau's chief legal ...

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

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

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 CFPB is the only federal agency ... Staff had previously been ordered to halt supervision and examination activity by acting director Russell Vought. On Monday, government lawyers appeared ...

In addition to expanding the previous directives, Vought reportedly directed CFPB staff to: not commence, take additional investigative activities ... rules will halt. Formal notice in the Federal ...

Under Bessent and Vought, all CFPB activities were halted ... pursuant to a February 18 executive order (EO). Amidst the halt to activities, it’s been reported that more than 70 CFPB employees ...

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

A judge directed pointed questions on Monday at the Trump administration about whether its decision to halt most ... Director Russ Vought’s orders to stop activity at the CFPB, a watchdog ...