Consumer Financial Protection Bureau drops lawsuits against Capital One and Rocket Mortgage affiliate

States look at shoring up consumer protections as Trump hobbles federal watchdog

By Kevin Hardy, Stateline.org Illinois state Sen. Mark Walker already was working on legislation to bolster the state’s protections for consumers. But now that President Donald Trump has attacked the federal government’s consumer watchdog, Walker said it’s even more important for Illinois to act. Walker, a Democrat, sponsored a bill to bolster the state’s existing bank regulator to help fill the void left by weakening of the federal Consumer Fin…

America’s financial watchdog itself now needs protection

The weighty-dollar work of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is under attack by political ideologues.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Does Vital Work

America’s consumer finance watchdog has helped countless families hang onto their homes after falling on hard luck.

Federal layoffs upended work to help misled student borrowers

Student loan borrowers who said their lenders overcharged them were days away from getting help when the Trump administration fired the federal workers who were set to step in.The workers, from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, were also in the midst of helping another approximately 900 students defrauded by for-profit colleges who had been overwhelmingly, and wrongly, rejected from having their loans discharged, according to two people …

CFPB Employees Want to Work—if CFPB Leadership Would Just Let Them

In court filings, workers allege leadership is trying to make the CFPB exist "in name only."

Stop Work. OK, Start Work. No, Not That Work. Inside Trump’s Consumer Protection Chaos

Conflicting memos about legally required work at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have watchdogs on a yo-yo, and a judge losing patience.