The director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, has been waiting for a phone call, letter, email, text — anything, really — from the Trump administration to say if he’s getting fired.

In 2017, then-President Donald Trump appointed White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. As a Republican member of Congress, Mulvaney had previously called the CFPB “a joke… in a sick, sad kind of way.”

Here’s what experts say about the possible closure of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Donald Trump supporters are questioning why the president hasn’t put forward nominees to lead the agencies, or at a minimum fire the current heads.

The director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ... Chopra has already packed up his office a few blocks from the White House. His picture no longer hangs in the lobby.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, is a government agency that oversees the consumer finance industry, including banks, lenders and other financial institutions.

Eliminating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Trump's second term appears unlikely. But observers expect the agency to be more restrained.

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced on Friday it had fined credit reporting bureau Equifax $15 million for failing to sufficiently investigate consumer disputes of its credit reports.

Democratic lawmakers are asking federal regulators to look into legal and ethical questions around the meme cryptocurrency coins launched by Donald Trump.

If you had a savings account at Capital One between 2019 and mid-2024, you may have been misled into accepting a lower return on your deposits than the marketing suggested, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by the government's consumer watchdog agency.

The CFPB is calling on state governments to increase their focus on consumer financial protection laws.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a federal agency that protects consumers from predatory lenders and credit card companies. Here's how to file a complaint.