Chaos within the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has come to light in a recent court filing showing emails and documents from employees inside the agency amid efforts to dismantle it, illustrating a team scrambling to make do with recent firings and confusion on what work is allowed to be completed.

Hundreds of pages of communications reveal the internal chaos at agency after acting director Russell Vought ordered a total stoppage of all “work tasks.”

A federal judge wants to hear directly from one of the top officials at the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau to learn if the Trump administration is gutting the agency.

Conflicting memos about legally required work at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have watchdogs on a yo-yo, and a judge losing patience.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is allowing some offices to resume their functions, as the Trump administration faces a legal challenge over its stop work order and other efforts

It’s taken just a few weeks in office, but the Trump administration’s apparent vision for economic populism is coming into focus: a blueprint for mass layoffs, creeping inflation, and a dissolution of consumer safeguards reviled by many wealthy Republican donors and politicians.

A federal judge extended a temporary restraining order blocking the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from sending money back to the Federal Reserve or Treasury Department after plaintiffs submitted declarations showing the agency was looking to do so.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the city of Baltimore butted heads and faced skeptical questions from a federal judge in Maryland over whether statements from acting Director Russell Vought threatening to zero out the agency’s funding amounted to an unlawful and final agency action.

In a trove of statements released late Thursday, federal employees said that the mass layoff was discussed in meetings they attended this month.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ... After Trump replaced its director with Russell Vought — director of the White House budget office and an author of Project 2025 — work at the ...

Since its founding, the CFPB has returned more than $21 billion to consumers who were victims of fraud or scams.

Employees testified that CFPB leaders and Elon Musk’s DOGE want to wind down the agency to five employees, the minimum required under law.