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 ...

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 ...

The Massachusetts Senator last week held her own hearing with a former CFPB executive and progressives in which she accused Elon Musk of trying to “eliminate the watchdog” that would oversee ...

And even if they only report positive history, if you've paid on time for eight consecutive ... false statements or representation about debt collection related to rent, per CFPB data. If you ...

The CFPB sued TransUnion and a former executive in 2022 for allegedly violating a 2017 order from the bureau about deceptive marketing practices. The case has been caught up in courts for years, with ...

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 ...