A federal judge has rejected a claim by the Trump administration that it is barred from funding a consumer watchdog agency.

The agency was created after the 2008 financial meltdown, as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. That law was passed in the wake of the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis ...

Established in the wake of the Great Recession, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a government agency intended to do exactly what its name states: protect consumers financially by ...

Over 190 House and Senate Democrats joined a letter vowing to protect CFPB A group of 191 House and Senate Democrats sent a letter to Russell Vought, the newly installed director of the Office of ...

The Supreme Court may decide as soon as Friday whether to tackle a new case that could further constrain the power of US regulators to delve into American businesses and individual lives. In recent ...

NPR's Tamara Keith speaks with Rohit Chopra, the director of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, about a Supreme Court decision that validated how the bureau is funded. We start this hour ...

Could your debt be reduced or forgiven? Take our financial relief quiz. Consumer protection laws help keep businesses honest by shielding consumers against companies that operate with unfair, ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was one of the early targets of the Trump administration's attempts to dramatically reduce government spending. The bureau's work was first suspended in early ...

Financial exploitation in the elder population has been on the rise, with financial institutions reporting quadruple the number of such incidences from 2013 to 2017, according to the Consumer ...

The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to temporarily close its office and suspend many of its services, according to emails viewed by The Washington Post, ...

Political Director and Executive Director of Politics and White House, CBS News Fin Daniel Gómez is CBS News' political director and executive director, Politics and White House. In this role, Gómez ...