From credit cards to medical debt: What may happen to some key consumer protection rules under Trump
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the so-called cop on the beat protecting Americans from financial abuse, is now ...
The 5 Worst Things About the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The agency—an unelected regulator with a blank check—has spent much of its short life making things harder for the consumers ...
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Musk will personally profit from dismantling consumer protection agency: Ex-CFPB Official
President Trump has given yet more power to Elon Musk, who is now leading the effort to dismantle the Consumer Financial ...
Trump Officials Agree in Court Not to Ax More US Consumer Finance Watchdog Jobs for Now
(Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration has temporarily agreed not to fire any more staff at the U.S. Consumer ...
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Trump has subdued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. So what does this agency do?
The Trump administration's Feb. 8 order that employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau halt much of their work amounts to an existential crisis for a government agency that itself was ...
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Consumer Protection Update: With Disruption at the Federal Level, State Attorneys General Are Likely to Loom Large
We are less than a month into the new Trump administration and are seeing an unprecedented wave of activity and major changes at federal ...
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What does having the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on hold mean for consumers?
NEW YORK — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Congress established to monitor credit card companies, mortgage providers, debt collectors and other segments of the consumer finance ...
Russell Vought took over as acting director of consumer protection office, WSJ reports
Russell Vought, who was confirmed by the Senate as the head of the Office of Management and Budget on Thursday, took over ...