Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is quickly seeking to crack down on the activities of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), preventing it from drawing down more ...

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 ...

Since the Trump administration moved to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last month, the bureau has dropped ...

"Any and all Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility ('DEIA') activities will cease ... the Trump administration's CFPB officials, including Vought and Mark Paoletta, the bureau's chief legal ...

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

Wesley Ward, an Illinois State University alum from Bloomington-Normal, worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...

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

In addition to expanding the previous directives, Vought reportedly directed CFPB staff to: not commence, take additional investigative activities ... rules will halt. Formal notice in the Federal ...