In an email to staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency’s acting director ordered workers to cease “all ...

This spigot, long contributing to CFPB's unaccountability, is now being turned off,” he wrote on X Saturday evening.

Vought was an architect of Project 2025. He takes over at the consumer finance watchdog as he orders a pause in most of the agency's activities, and promises to cut spending.

Trump’s DOGE, an advisory body led by Musk, has zeroed in on some agencies as part of its efforts to slash the size of ...