President Trump has tapped Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as the acting chief of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). “I look forward to working with the CFPB to advance President ...

In what appears to be yet another move to consolidate parts of the federal government, President Donald Trump has appointed ...

The bureau's now-former director, widely expected to be fired — arguably earlier — by the Trump administration “has concluded ...

President Donald Trump designated Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as the bureau’s acting chief, according to a statement ...

The president has named Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on an acting basis after firing CFPB Director Rohit Chopra over the weekend.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was told to cease operations on Monday shortly after President Donald Trump appointed Treasury Director Scott Bessent to serve as the watchdog agency’s acting ...

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is refusing to defend Biden administration-era rules in court after its ...

The secretary replaces Rohit Chopra, who had aggressively sought to expand the bureau’s authority over banks and other ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who took over on Monday as President Donald Trump's new acting consumer finance ...

"We’re hopeful that Secretary Bessent will take into account the real-world ramifications regulations have on America’s ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is ordering a freeze to work at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, after being named ...

Rohit Chopra departs CFPB after pushing regulations that limited overdraft fees and banned medical debt from credit reports.