New Details Emerge on Trump Officials’ Sprint to Gut Consumer Bureau Staff Emails and testimonials from workers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau document the administration’s efforts to lay off 90 percent of the e […]

Millions of Student Loan Borrowers Are Behind on Payments They’re seeing their credit scores drop, which will make it more difficult to buy a car or rent a home. And that has implications for the already slowing e […]

Court Scraps $8 Limit on Credit Card Late Fees The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau switched sides and backed a federal lawsuit by banks and business groups seeking to eliminate a fee cap the bureau […]

Appeals Court Scales Back Freeze on Firing Consumer Bureau Employees A federal appeals panel on Friday halted parts of a district court judge’s injunction blocking the Trump administration’s effort to dismantle the Con […]

House Strikes Down $5 Overdraft Fee Limit, Sending Issue to Trump Lawmakers also struck down a rule giving the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau supervisory power over tech companies’ payments apps.The House of R […]

Consumer Bureau Seeks to Undo Settlement and Repay Mortgage Lender The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to return a $105,000 penalty it collected last fall when it resolved a discrimination lawsuit.Under President […]

Left for Dead, the C.F.P.B. Inches Back to Life Court orders have paused, and at times reversed, the Trump administration’s efforts to shut down the consumer watchdog agency.At the headquarters of the C […]

Trump Seeks to Bar Student Loan Relief to Workers Aiding Migrants and Trans Kids President Trump signed an executive order instructing administration officials to alter a student loan forgiveness program for public servants to exclude […]

CFPB Drops Lawsuit Against Banks Over Zelle Scams A spokeswoman for the payment app’s parent company said the lawsuit against three large banks was “without merit, and legally and factually flawed.”The Consu […]

CFPB Drops Lawsuit Against Capital One Bank That Accused It of Tricking Customers The move, on a suit that had accused the bank of tricking customers, was one of several dismissals ordered by Trump officials who are dismantling the […]