Trump signed two executive orders on housing supply and mortgage credit, urging HUD, FHFA and CFPB to revise key rules.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:Section 1. Purpose ...

Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget and acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The White House's Council of Economic Advisers on Tuesday issued a ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is on “life support,” according to a press release issued early Monday by Consumer Reports. Key reasons for that dire prognosis include a 2025 order from the ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued an advisory opinion (the 2025 Opinion), effective 23 December 2025, on whether earned wage access (EWA) products constitute “credit” under ...

A federal district court judge ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration can't allow funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to lapse, saying that acting CFPB director Russell Vought ...

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration must secure funding for a consumer watchdog agency or risk violating an existing court order barring its shuttering, rejecting a novel legal ...

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 ...

On December 23, 2025, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published in the Federal Register an advisory opinion affirming that certain qualifying earned wage access (EWA) services, also ...

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 ...