The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Thursday moved forward with sweeping layoffs at the agency as the Trump administration looks to remake the consumer enforcement agency.

More than 1,400 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) workers were terminated from their positions on Thursday amid a broader Trump administration shakeup at the independent government ...

More than 1,500 staffers at the CFPB are expected to be hit by the reduction-in-force effort, which kicked off Thursday, said the person, who was granted anonymity to speak freely about a ...

A CFPB union sign in the window of an apartment in Washington. A federal judge will hold a hearing Friday to determine if the leadership of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should be held in ...

Mortgage lenders shouldn’t interpret the downsizing of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) as a green light to ease compliance, despite potential mass layoffs and a shift in ...

"Anybody should expect a letter at any time for the rest of this administration," one CFPB staffer said Thursday. "It's the sword of Damocles." The layoffs come just days after a three-judge panel of ...

A new internal memo from the CFPB told employees to "deprioritize" student loans and medical debt. It said that the focus of the CFPB will shift from supervision of companies to giving money back ...

A federal judge temporarily barred the Trump administration from laying off roughly 90 percent of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) as she mulls whether it violates her previous order.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said she was worried the layoffs would violate her earlier order stopping the Republican administration from shutting down the CFPB. She’s been considering ...

The plan would mark a major change in direction for the CFPB, which was created in 2010 in the wake of the housing crisis and Wall Street meltdown that had paralyzed the nation’s economy.

Over the past decade, the CFPB has filed lawsuits against major companies, including student lenders and banks like Capital One, over accusations of predatory behavior. It has also returned ...