The group is warning against efforts by the Trump Administration and Elon Musk to defund and disband the CFPB, which enforces consumer protection laws.
Elon Musk’s young foot soldiers at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) were caught on camera for the first time as they walked into a federal agency building—part of an apparent attempt to shut it down.
The Massachusetts senator invited the tech billionaire to testify at an informal hearing focusing on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau next week, as the Trump adviser pledges to destroy the agency she helped create.
Republicans have had the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in their sights since its 2011 inception. With President Donald Trump back in the White House, they appear to be moving toward their goal of dismantling the federal watchdog,
The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. First Director of the CFPB Richard Cordray joins Chris Jansing to discuss the changes to the federal government and the potential impact of it.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency responsible for protecting consumers, is now under scrutiny as part of Elon Musk's push to cut costs across the federal government. Recently, the agency sued Capital One Bank for allegedly defrauding consumers of over $2 billion.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) has invited Elon Musk to a hearing on his plans to tank the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
San Francisco workers for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau protested Elon Musk's plan to axe the agency, as well as layoffs that have already begun.
The Trump administration's orders to stop supervisory exams at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are seen as a potential conflict of interest for Elon Musk, whose company X would have been overseen by the bureau when it launches its payments wallet.
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Adam Schiff are alarmed about the weakening of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as Musk pushes a new digital payment platform.
One of the agencies that Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is tasked with downsizing is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — the very same agency that will decide whether Musk's social media platform X will be permitted to offer mobile payment services à la Paypal.
The upheaval at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau offers a glimpse into the playbook that Elon Musk and other Trump allies seem to be writing in real time.