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Established in the wake of the Great Recession, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a government agency intended to do exactly what its name states: protect consumers financially by ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all its work, effectively shutting down an agency that was created to protect consumers ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elon Musk's stance on the agency was summed up in a pithy tweet: "Delete CFPB." (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call / Getty Images) The ...