Trump taps bank, Wall Street regulators for top posts
President Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated a slate of top financial regulators, including a permanent head of the Consumer ...
Trump Plans to Pick Quintenz as Head of US Derivatives Regulator
President Donald Trump plans to pick Brian Quintenz, the head of policy at Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z crypto arm, to lead the ...
Trump Threatens to ‘Look At’ Judges Blocking Musk’s DOGE Actions
Trump is defying court rulings against Elon Musk’s DOGE project, threatening judges, and dismissing concerns about conflicts of interest.
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CFPB Crisis: Resignations and Controversy Under Trump Administration
Top officials at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) resigned, opposing the Trump administration's directive to cease agency activities. Enforcement Director Halperin and Supervision ...
US consumer watchdog's enforcement, supervision chiefs say they resigned
The top officials for enforcement and supervision at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said on Tuesday they had ...
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Trump orders agencies to plan for widespread layoffs and attrition-based hiring
The order tasks agencies to work in conjunction with Elon Musk’s DOGE to dramatically scale back government capacity.
With the CFPB Being Dismantled, Who's Policing The Big Banks?
With the government's consumer watchdog agency off the job on the orders of President Donald Trump, Democratic lawmakers are ...
Majority believes US in constitutional crisis despite high Trump approval: Polls
YouGov polling data show 54% of respondents believe the U.S. is suffering a constitutional crisis while 53% approve of President Donald Trump.
Trump, joined by Musk in Oval Office, orders up big cuts in federal workforce
President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that seeks to "significantly reduce the size of government" through Elon ...
Elon Musk turns his sights to Social Security. Could he cut it?
Fresh off takedowns of the U.S. Agency for International Development-which has alarmed even many Republicans - and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - an agency which has saved Americans tens ...
The CFPB’s Headquarters Shutdown Came Swiftly, Under a Veil of Secrecy
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, used a take-no-prisoners approach in shuttering the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
With firings and lax enforcement, Trump moves to dismantle public integrity guardrails
In the first three weeks of his administration, President Donald Trump moved with haste to dismantle the federal government's ...