Dozens of employees at the bureau were fired by email on Tuesday night amid a stop-work order and closure of the Consumer ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau abruptly halted operations following directives from the agency's new acting director Russell Vought under the Trump administration. Major CFPB cases are ...

On Feb. 7, Office of Management and Budget (OMB ... gained access to CFPB internal systems on Feb. 7. Additionally, Acting Director Vought said on X that the CFPB would not request any funding ...

The mass layoffs will also hollow out the ranks of consumer protection cops. One of these CFPB “compliance examiners,” based in Texas, is Taylor Sonne, who joined the bureau in March 2024.

McKernan would take over at the CFPB from Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget ... restore all internal and external systems and operations, and allow the CFPB ...

Taylor Sonne is one CFPB employee who said he received notice of termination on Tuesday. He had been employed at the agency since last March as a compliance ... the Office of Management and ...

The dismissals follow a stop-work order and a funding freeze implemented by acting CFPB director Russell Vought — the Project 2025 architect who was recently Senate confirmed to lead Donald Trump’s ...