The Senate has paved the way for Russell Vought to remain acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by allowing the nomination of a permanent director to lapse. Under Senate rules, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twenty-one state and district attorneys general filed a lawsuit against Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought on ...

A coalition of 21 states along with the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration on Monday to prevent it from defunding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which says it will run out ...

A coalition of Democratic state attorneys general sued Monday to stop the Trump administration’s latest efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The CFPB, created after the 2008 ...

On January 3, 2026, the Senate sent the nomination of Stuart Levenbach to be CFPB Director back to the President—a move that would allow Russell Vought to remain acting head of the bureau through ...

Russell Vought, US President Donald Trump’s newly anointed head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, says he’s cut off the agency from new funding and has reportedly told staff to suspend all ...

The Democratic attorneys general for 21 states and the District of Columbia are suing Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, who also serves as the acting director of the Consumer ...

Vought has claimed that the Federal Reserve has no "combined earnings" this year, therefore it cannot give CFPB money. Judge Amy Berman Jackson shot that down. In an order issued today, a federal ...

Senior Democratic lawmakers have filed an amicus brief arguing that CFPB Acting Director Russell Vought’s reinterpretation of the agency’s funding mechanism unlawfully undermines its independence and ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will receive a new infusion of funding which was announced by the CFPB’s Acting Director, Russell Vought, who is also the Director for the Office of ...