Elon Musk Has Dealt the CFPB a Dishonorable Death
A new report provides details of the bloodletting at an agency born to protect us from Wall Street carnivores.
The CFPB took aim at Big Tech. Then Elon Musk moved to dismantle it.
In the days before Musk’s DOGE set its sights on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, X revealed plans for a payments system the agency might have overseen.
As he targets the CFPB, Elon Musk looks to dismantle his own potential regulator
Elon Musk and DOGE have begun making moves toward dismantling the CFPB. The watchdog agency would be in charge of regulating X, which Musk wants to transform into a payment platform.
5 ways Elon Musk is working to dismantle the federal government
President Trump has empowered Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, to gut the federal bureaucracy. Here's 5 ways he's starting to carry it out.
Elon Musk's latest move shocks tech world
Elon Musk has been extremely busy since Donald Trump’s return to the White House. His position as head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has kept him in the spotlight as questions arise about the reach of his newfound power.
Fact-checking Elon Musk's claims in the Oval Office
Elon Musk has made a number of exaggerated or unevidenced claims during an Oval Office event alongside President Donald Trump. The billionaire, who was making his first major media appearance since beginning his role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge),
Elon Musk's DOGE Update: Five Takeaways
Elon Musk joined President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Tuesday in his first appearance at the White House.
Why Trump and Musk are shutting down the CFPB
The Trump administration's work to shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could hit American consumers in the ...
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Two-Word Plan to Save the CFPB From Elon Musk
“RIP CFPB,” Musk posted on X last week, alongside a tombstone emoji.
‘CFPB RIP’: Elon Musk is already descending on his next target
Three Musk allies, some of whom are tied to his Department of Government Efficiency, have embedded with the consumer bureau, ...
Elon Musk is waging war on a key check on his business empire
Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022 with the hopes of turning it into “the everything app” that will let users zap money to each other and where they could eventually conduct their “entire financial ...
As Musk, Trump administration target CFPB, Democrats defend consumer watchdog's impact
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent agency formed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to safeguard ...
Warren: Only Congress — not Trump or Musk — can 'get rid of the CFPB'
Senator Elizabeth Warren said Wednesday that the law clearly states only Congress can shutter the CFPB, setting up a ...
Elizabeth Warren to Elon Musk: ‘You Don’t Get to Slither Around in the Dark’
The Massachusetts senator decries Trump’s vandalism of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Musk’s “Mount Everest of ...
"Let the scams roll": Elon Musk exploits culture wars to turn MAGA against consumer protections
Musk and his allies have a clever way to sell the pro-scam agenda to the MAGA base: Tell them that the CFPB has girl cooties.
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Dozens of CFPB workers are fired as the agency remains shuttered
Dozens of employees at the bureau were fired by email on Tuesday night amid a stop-work order and closure of the Consumer ...
Elon Musk's DOGE has worked quickly to cut federal agencies. Here's a list of what's been targeted so far.
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has targeted federal agencies like USAID, CFPB, and NOAA to reduce government ...