Oregon leads lawsuit against Trump administration's starving of consumer protection office

The lawsuit alleges Project 2025 architect Russel Vought, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's acting director, is ...
Fulcrum US on MSN

Project 2025: Trump strikes at the Federal Reserve and financial protection

Last spring and summer, The Fulcrum published a 30-part series on Project 2025. Now that Donald Trump's second term The ...
ProPublica

Fend for Yourself: Under Trump, Consumer Protection Bureau’s Probes of Big Tech and Finance Firms Freeze Up

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Since the Trump administration moved to dismantle the ...
USA Today

Judge blocks mass layoffs at consumer protection agency targeted by Trump

The Trump administration has agreed to pause layoffs and funding cuts at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, the federal agency responsible for cracking down on “junk” fees and ...
Media Matters for America

Project 2025 architect begins dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau following years of right-wing media attacks

Right-wing media have targeted the CFPB even as it has saved working Americans tens of billions of dollars ...
ConsumerAffairs

How do consumer protection laws keep you and your money safe?

Could your debt be reduced or forgiven? Take our financial relief quiz. Consumer protection laws help keep businesses honest by shielding consumers against companies that operate with unfair, ...
USA Today

No more consumer protection? What the CFPB shutdown means for you.

In the waning months of the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, released a flurry of new consumer protection rules, targeting everything from bank overdraft fees ...