Judge keeps pause on mass firings at CFPB as she considers Trump's attempt to shut agency
A federal judge Monday kept in place an order prohibiting mass firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau while she ...
Judge wants to hear from top Consumer Financial Protection Bureau official about the agency's dismantling
A federal judge wants to hear directly from one of the top officials at the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau to learn if the Trump administration is gutting the agency.
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'We need to know what's going on:' Judge orders new CFPB hearing
At a court hearing on Monday, lawyers for the Trump administration said statutorily-required work is being done by the ...
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CFPB employees told to continue “performing statutorily required work”
An email from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) COO Adam Martinez, which was obtained by Bloomberg Law, told ...
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Amid Dismissals and Uncertainty, CFPB Says It Will Continue Litigating At Least One Matter Inherited From Prior Administration
In a significant development, for the first time under Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Acting Director Russell Vought, CFPB litigators ...
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Vulture Capitalism Comes for Democracy
The playbook Trump and Musk are following to dismantle government resembles the one used to pick apart America’s newspapers.
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A New Kind of Christian University
Author John W. Hawthorne calls for adopting a new approach to Christian higher education and staying out of the culture wars.
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CFPB could be reduced to ‘five men and a phone’
The agency’s future remains in limbo as employees describe efforts to gut it. In other D.C. news, HUD scraps a Biden-era rule ...
Trump administration and Musk's DOGE plan to fire nearly all CFPB staff and wind down agency, employees say
In a trove of statements released late Thursday, federal employees said that the mass layoff was discussed in meetings they ...
CFPB leaders and Musk's DOGE plan to fire nearly all staff and wind down agency, employees say
Employees testified that CFPB leaders and Elon Musk’s DOGE want to wind down the agency to five employees, the minimum ...
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Senate confirms Russell Vought to lead White House budget office
The Senate on Thursday confirmed Russell Vought as the next director of the powerful White House budget office, installing a conservative fiscal hawk who has promised to pursue sweeping spending ...