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Crippling the CFPB Could Hurt Consumers and Loosen Regulations for Financial Giants
Alternative options if you're the victim of unfair and abusive practices as the consumer watchdog 'winds down.' ...
Trump claims CFPB “destroys” people. Senators say killing it is a gift to Musk.
Companies' reputations were damaged without proof, critics claimed, since the CFPB doesn't verify complaints. On the other ...
Ohio's Richard Cordray, ex-CFPB director, lambasts Trump for wiping out 'police' of banks
Richard Cordray, first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, warns that President Trump is trying to wipe out ...
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CFPB has recouped billions for American consumers. Musk wants to delete it.
CFPB RIP,” wrote Elon Musk in a Feb. 7 post on his social media platform X. This story also appeared in The Badger Project ...
'Hurting people to help themselves': Dem senator disses DOGE's CFPB cuts
Va., met with Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) employees on Friday who were fired as a result of Elon Musk’s DOGE federal workforce reductions.
Top budget Democrat: GOP spending bill hands ‘a blank check to Elon Musk’
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, slammed the new House Republicans’ ...
Consumer protection workers endure chaos and confusion amid efforts to dismantle their agency
Chaos within the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has come to light in a recent court filing showing emails and documents ...
Conflict-of-interest questions surface as CFPB stripped of its power to regulate Elon Musk’s X
The Senate has stripped the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s power to monitor digital payment offerings. That could ...
Elon Musk's Influence Under Scrutiny As Senate Votes To Block CFPB's Digital Payments Oversight, Sparks Conflict-Of Interest Probe
The U.S. Senate voted to revoke the CFPB's oversight of digital payment platforms, a move that could benefit Elon Musk's X, ...
Sen. Blumenthal asks Visa for records of its payments deal with Elon Musk's X
The Senate request is one of the first signs of scrutiny on Visa after a late January announcement that it had agreed to ...
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Consumer Protection Bureau drops lawsuits against financial giants
The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday dropped ... Since taking office, Trump and his downsizing czar Elon Musk have vowed to destroy the CFPB. They have fired scores ...
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The government already knows a lot about you. DOGE is trying to access all of it
Agencies from Social Security to the IRS store sensitive data on millions of Americans. Here's what the government knows about us – and what's at risk as DOGE seeks access to the data.