Trump Administration Removes Consumer Reports from Public Database

Critic of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau leadership was put under investigation and suspended from job

Mark Paoletta’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has launched an internal investigation of CFPB Union leader Stephen Wheeler.

Employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau returned to the office this week. Hundreds more, spread across the country, must relocate to Washington by November or leave.

Workers filed into the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s new headquarters Monday morning, marking their first day back in office after the Trump administration froze most of their work last year…

Hundreds of employees around the country must relocate to Washington, D.C., or risk termination from the agency that has repeatedly attempted to eliminate their jobs.

The Trump administration is requiring nearly all Consumer Financial Protection Bureau staff members around the country to work out of a new office in Washington, a move that some employees fear is a…

The top U.S. government watchdog for consumer financial protection on Wednesday said it would reassign virtually all staff nationwide to its Washington headquarters later this year, ​the latest move l...

The CFPB's vision is a consumer finance marketplace that works for American consumers, responsible providers, and the economy as a whole.

April 2, 2026 Contact: press@nteu335.org WASHINGTON, D.C. – CFPB Union NTEU 335 condemned Acting Director Russell Vought’s latest plan to eliminate more than two-thirds of CFPB’s positions, calling it...

Proposal to Dramatically Reduce CFPB Staff Would Cripple Supervision of Banks and Fintech Lending Apps; Cut Enforcement Staff by 80% WASHINGTON – In its latest attempt to shutter the nation’s top cons...

The Trump administration has significantly reduced the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's activities over the past year.

Russell Vought is seizing every opportunity he can to dismantle a crucial watchdog agency.

Russell Vought is seizing every opportunity he can to dismantle a crucial watchdog agency.

An appeals court will decide if further cuts can be made to the CFPB, a key agency tasked with protecting consumers

In response to the anonymous personal attacks on former CFPB union member Julia Barnard, her former colleagues and union members made the following statements.

It's been a challenging year for the consumer watchdog agency, as the Trump administration has tried to deny it funding and lay off most of its staff.

When Bianca Jones, a 33-year-old special education teacher in Memphis, Tennessee, decided a couple of years ago that she wanted to buy a house, she started digging into her Experian credit report. She...

Overview: 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 fe...

The D.C. Circuit vacated a three-judge panel’s decision that could have permitted Russell Vought to dismantle the CFPB.

Employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wait while the Trump administration’s mass layoffs at the agency are challenged in court.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s top enforcement official, Michael Salemi, resigned his post yesterday after concluding that “there is no path to an effective future enforcement program at t...