Last spring and summer, The Fulcrum published a 30-part series on Project 2025. Now that Donald Trump's second term The ...

Ever since the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened in 2011 with a mandate to regulate financial institutions, its detractors have tried to eliminate it. They have questioned its ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ March 9 The Washington Post says Americans need the CFPB Ever since the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened in 2011 with a ...

Alternative options if you're the victim of unfair and abusive practices as the consumer watchdog 'winds down.' ...

The beneficiaries of a weakened CFPB are clear: big banks, payday lenders, debt collectors, and financial institutions that ...

Controversy Over the U.S. Crypto Reserve Plan Trump’s recently announced plan to create a U.S. crypto reserve has caused a ...

The CFPB has extended the comment period for its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on data brokers until April 2, 2025; the comment period had been ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... Founded in 2010 by Senator Elizabeth Warren, the ...

And even if they only report positive history, if you've paid on time for eight consecutive ... false statements or ...

unprecedented in American history, to unliterally eliminate an agency that Congress established and that the Supreme Court upheld last year," the union said. The union has asked for a temporary ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Trump-appointed leadership plans to fire nearly all its 1,700 employees while "winding down" the agency, according to testimony from employees.

In notices of voluntary dismissals filed on Thursday, the CFPB dropped lawsuits it had brought against Capital One, Rocket Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, owned by Warren Buffett’s ...