Acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Russell Vought said all diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility ...

On Saturday, CFPB chief Russell Vought sent the directive to the agency’s staff, the Associated Press reported. In the notification, Vought ordered agency employees to stop working on proposed ...

The bureau’s acting director halted “race-based” activities, forbade pronouns in email signatures and equated noncompliance to “gross insubordination.” ...

effectively slowing a large portion of the bureau's activity to a standstill. In the email to CFPB employees, which was obtained by NBC News, Vought confirmed that he has taken on the role of ...

Five days later on Feb. 8, Russ Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget and acting director of the bureau, ordered CFPB staff to "cease all supervision and examination activity ...

Berman Jackson also ordered the CFPB and Vought not to transfer money from ... and the audit logs of that activity could be deleted,” she wrote. “This could result in unfair competition ...

A Biden-appointed judge was wary of overstepping his authority to block what he said was not a “final agency action” by the CFPB.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is one step closer to having a Senate-confirmed director even as the agency is ...

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

Ahead of a court hearing, the top lawyer at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says he ordered supervisory staff to get ...

The email, sent late Saturday evening, instructed all CFPB staff to "cease all supervision and examination activity" and "cease ... The email was sent by Russell Vought, the newly confirmed ...