Banking Dive
Vought concedes on CFPB funding
The CFPB’s acting director requested $145 million from the Federal Reserve to carry out agency duties for the fiscal second ...
American Banker
With CFPB nominee lapse, Vought continues as acting director
The Senate allowed the nomination of a permanent director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to lapse, giving acting ...
Yahoo
State attorneys general sue Trump administration over efforts to shutter CFPB
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 ...
The American Prospect
Judge Warns Vought of Contempt Order if He Back-Door Shuts Down CFPB
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 ...
Washington Examiner
Democratic attorneys general file lawsuit against Vought to keep CFPB funded
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 ...
NPR
Nearly 2 dozen states sue the Trump administration over funding for CFPB
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 ...
JD Supra
22 State AGs Sue CFPB Acting Director for Loss of Access to CFPB Resources
In 2025, we wrote how Democrat state attorneys general opposed CFPB’s ANPRs reducing CFPB oversight, a bipartisan group of AGs urged the CFPB ...
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Judge burns Russ Vought with his own words, sees right through DOJ effort to 'starve' Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 'with the stroke of pen'
A federal judge cut right to the chase on Tuesday, using Russell "Russ" Vought's words against him while seeing through his reliance on a DOJ Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) memo as a way to "starve" ...
The CFPB experienced an exceptionally turbulent year. Here's why
It's been a challenging year for the consumer watchdog agency, as the Trump administration has tried to deny it funding and ...
Wall Street Journal
Democratic Attorneys General Sue Russell Vought Over CFPB Funding
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 ...
American Banker
Former Fed officials: CFPB's Vought must ask for funding
Five former Federal Reserve officials told a court that acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Russell Vought has an obligation to request funding for the agency and that the Federal ...
JD Supra
Democratic Senators Raise Concerns Over Potential Mortgage Market Disruption if CFPB is Shuttered
On December 3, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), and Andy Kim (D-NJ) published a letter to CFPB Acting Director Russell Vought expressing concern that ...