Published on: 2025-04-19 23:48:42
A judge has paused the termination of nearly 1,500 employees from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) while she considers whether the Trump administration violated a court order to avoid mass layoffs. As CNN reports, Judge Amy Berman Jackson said the mass reduction in force was “not going to happen” for now and scheduled an evidentiary hearing for April 28th. The ruling should temporarily prevent the CFPB from being nearly eliminated, a move that CFPB Acting Director Russell Vought
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 11:47:16
is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is sending out mass layoff notices that appear to be in defiance of a court order blocking further layoffs following DOGE-induced cuts. “I regret to inform you that you are affected by a reduction in force (RIF) action,” says a notic
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 15:27:51
More than 1,400 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) workers were terminated from their positions on Thursday amid a broader Trump administration shakeup at the independent government agency, sources tell WIRED. There were around 1,700 employees in total at the CFPB. The mass reduction in force, or RIF, comes nearly a month after a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order barring the Trump administration from removing probationary employees at the CFPB and other agencies. On Fr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-19 19:25:00
A year and a half ago, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) worked with state attorneys general to shut down Prehired, a shady tech sales bootcamp program that a court said deceptively saddled students with millions of dollars in loans. Now, as the federal watchdog is being dismantled by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a consumer advocacy group says the company is relaunching its old pitch under a new name: FastTrack. Prehired was an online program that offere
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 12:24:00
If the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau doesn't prioritize protecting consumers, does it matter if the watchdog agency still exists? It might seem like a philosophical question, but this could be the CFPB's final chapter. On Friday, a federal court blocked the Trump administration from dismantling the agency with a temporary injunction, ordering employees be reinstated. But some of the damage has already been done. The CFPB has suspended most operations and started unwinding regulations, a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 03:10:31
A court took action on Friday to keep the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from shutting down a consumer watchdog agency while its court case plays out. Judge Amy Berman Jackson granted a preliminary injunction to save the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from being further gutted while she decides whether the Trump administration has the legal authority to dismantle it in the first place. “Absent an injunction freezing the status quo – preservi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-12 14:41:49
Terminated employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) have been brought back to work in response to a judge’s order — sort of. Probationary employees (a class of government workers who are newer to an agency or role) received letters over the weekend notifying them that they were reinstated into their positions, following a court order requiring the CFPB and 17 other agencies to restore such employees. According to court filings, the agency had allegedly terminated about 70 pr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 17:45:49
A federal judge seems likely to temporarily block the Trump administration from dismantling a major consumer protection agency, fearing a delay could leave nothing for the court to save. This week, DC District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson sat through what she called an “illuminating two days” of witness testimony on the future of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), including plans for a mass reduction-in-force (RIF) of nearly 1,200 employees. The testimony came from a top agenc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 22:45:49
A federal judge seems likely to temporarily block the Trump administration from dismantling a major consumer protection agency, fearing a delay could leave nothing for the court to save. This week, DC District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson sat through what she called an “illuminating two days” of witness testimony on the future of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), including plans for a mass reduction-in-force (RIF) of nearly 1,200 employees. The testimony came from a top agenc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 18:00:00
It looks like the end of the road for a government watchdog, which experts say could leave you with fewer financial protections. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is beginning to "wind down" operations as its new leadership team and Elon Musk's DOGE gut the agency, according to a lawsuit filed by the union representing CFPB employees. "Staff were told by senior executives that the CFPB would be eliminated except for the five statutorily mandated positions," a current CFPB employee testi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 06:05:28
is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. “Big time” confusion has wracked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) staff since last month, the agency’s chief operating officer, Adam Martinez, testified before a federal judge in Washington, DC, on Monday. Martinez’s testimony — which will continue on Tuesday aftern
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 00:30:30
A key federal watchdog is being stripped of its power to oversee potential fraud and abuse in online payment platforms just as Elon Musk’s site, X, attempts to become one. Late last year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau—which is tasked with rooting out financial malfeasance—issued a rule that expanded its purview to include digital payment apps like Venmo, PayPal, and Zelle. Just as the CFPB is responsible for overseeing traditional financial institutions, the agency had also sought to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 07:59:48
On Wednesday, the Senate voted to block the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from monitoring digital payments companies for fraud and privacy concerns—which Democratic lawmakers Elizabeth Warren and Adam Schiff said gave Elon Musk a "get out of jail free card." The vote advanced a proposed joint resolution to the House of Representatives that "disapproves" of a final rule Republicans introduced last year that was supposed to bring consumer protection regulation of digital payments co
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 12:59:48
On Wednesday, the Senate voted to block the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from monitoring digital payments companies for fraud and privacy concerns—which Democratic lawmakers Elizabeth Warren and Adam Schiff said gave Elon Musk a "get out of jail free card." The vote advanced a proposed joint resolution to the House of Representatives that "disapproves" of a final rule Republicans introduced last year that was supposed to bring consumer protection regulation of digital payments co
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 03:38:57
is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. The Senate voted on Wednesday to strip a key financial regulator of its ability to monitor digital platforms like X, as the social media company’s owner, Elon Musk, has become the public face of the government office seeking to shrink the agency’s workforce. The resolution, which
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 03:20:04
For all of Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s supposed concern that federal employees doing nothing but collecting paychecks, they sure are going through a lot of effort to keep people who actively want to work from doing their jobs. As part of the back-and-forth of legal filings and testimonies in a case that could decide the fate of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), employees of the agency say they are currently being restricted from working, and requests from workers to continue perf
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 11:00:21
is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today dismissed a lawsuit against Early Warning Services, the company that runs the Venmo-like Zelle payment platform, as well as the three banks that share ownership of it, reports CNBC. The CFPB, which enforces regulations against the financial services industry, had claimed in its December 2024 lawsuit th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 00:46:39
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has dropped its lawsuit over peer-to-peer payment system Zelle, the latest in a series of dismissals from this department under President Donald Trump's administration. The agency had only just announced the suit — filed against Zelle's operating entity Early Warning Services and partner banks JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo – in December . According to the initial action, the CFPB said that customers of the three banks had lost more than
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 23:09:25
is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is planning to fire the “vast majority” of employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), agency employees — some using pseudonyms for fear of retaliation — told a federal court in sworn declarations. Seven current and
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