(Reuters) -The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was defanged over the weekend with all activities suspended, its upcoming funding facing a cut and its headquarters temporarily closed, ...

It is long past time for a Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Our bank accounts should be a secure place to keep our money, not a black hole where chunks of our hard-earned wages disappear in ...

Trump Administration Orders Consumer Protection Agency to Stop Work, Closes Building WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all ...

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the federal watchdog created in response to the 2008 financial meltdown may continue to operate in its current form, brushing aside claims from the payday lending ...

Rachel Witkowski is an award-winning journalist whose 20-year career spans a wide range of topics in finance, government regulation and congressional reporting. Ms. Witkowski has spent the last decade ...

The agency tasked with protecting federal employees who blow the whistle on wrongdoing is faulting an appeals board for creating a new standard those workers must clear to prove their case. The Office ...

Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Russell Vought testifies before the House Budget Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2019, during a hearing on the fiscal year ...