Trump backs Musk as cost-cutting drive spreads across government
President Donald Trump's statement Friday that he had directed Elon Musk to turn his budget-slashing initiative on the ...
Workers at US consumer watchdog CFPB protest as Trump appointee takes over
About 100 workers at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau protested outside the agency's headquarters on Saturday, ...
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is Musk's next target
Members of Elon Musk’s team have reportedly descended upon the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the latest target of ...
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Russell Vought takes the helm at CFPB as Musk's DOGE accesses key systems
Vought was an architect of Project 2025. He takes over at the consumer finance watchdog as Elon Musk's representatives gained ...
Musk's Doge takes aim at US consumer protection agency
The billionaire aide to Donald Trump indicates he wants to see the end of an agency founded after the financial crash of 2007 ...
Unions lose fight to bar DOGE from Labor Department data
A federal judge rejected an attempt by some of the United States’s most powerful unions to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing the Department of Labor’s data.
How Wisconsin’s unbanked population compares to the rest of the U.S.
About 4.2% of Americans were considered unbanked in 2023, according to survey data the FDIC released in November. In ...
OMB head Russell Vought takes over as CFPB as acting head, DOGE team deletes X account
Russell Vought took over as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday night and officials from ...
DOGE rooted into Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as new acting head named
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is an outlet for Americans dealing with issues such as questionable student loan ...
Judge lets DOGE access sensitive records at Labor Department
Despite voicing skepticism about giving DOGE access to sensitive Labor data on millions of Americans, a judge denied unions’ ...
CFPB’s X Account Goes Dark As Russell Vought Takes Over, Elon Musk Posts ‘CFPB RIP’
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s X account appears to have gone offline after new acting director Russell Vought ...
Team Trump’s fight to convince Wall Street that Musk's DOGE is good for markets
Top Trump officials fanned out this past week to talk to markets about the upside of Elon Musk’s activities as questions ...