President Donald Trump on Monday designated Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent with additional duties as acting director of the ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is halting its operations amid Scott Bessent's takeover, according to reports.

President Donald Trump has tasked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent with serving as the acting director of the Consumer ...

WASHINGTON, DC -Rohit Chopra has been removed as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), ending his five ...

The secretary replaces Rohit Chopra, who had aggressively sought to expand the bureau’s authority over banks and other ...

With Rohit Chopra gone, Republicans have the mechanisms to overturn some of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's most ...

Republican Congressman Bryan Steil, of Janesville, said Monday he supports President Donald Trump’s firing of Consumer ...

But the agency has since been targeted by trade groups who unsuccessfully argued that the CFPB's funding violated the U.S.

CFPB staff was told to refrain from issuing public communications, halt activities including rules and settlements and ...

Republicans have long criticized the bureau, which they see as an unaccountable regulator with too broad a reach.

Staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were instructed by email to cease much of their work. Bessent, a wealthy ...