U.S. consumer watchdog faces extinction in 2026 as Trump says it’s ‘very important’ to shut it down

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says it will run out of funds in early 2026. 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 was shocked by what she found.