Here's some background on the scope of the CFPB's activities and how the agency's tenuous status might affect consumers.

Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget and the acting director of CFPB, ordered the federal watchdog ...

The new boss at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had a jarring message for staffers Monday morning, in an internal ...

The CFPB is an independent government agency tasked with protecting consumers and enforcing rules for banks, credit unions ...

President Trump and other critics of the agency say it needs to be shut down. Supporters of the agency point to its record of protecting consumers.

"They will fail again," Warren said after a Trump administration official ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to ...

The agency was created to protect consumers after the 2008 financial crisis and subprime mortgage-lending scandal.

Top officials at the CFPB said Tuesday they had resigned. However, the White House said they had instead been placed on administrative leave.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the latest ... Russell Vought, the newly installed director of the Office of Management and Budget, told the CFPB last weekend to stop its ...