The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a longtime target of the Republican Party that has undergone a significant shakeup in recent weeks, will continue operating, the Trump administration says. After Trump replaced its director with Russell Vought — director of the White House budget office and an author of Project 2025 — work at the CFPB was frozen.

Illinois state Sen. Mark Walker already was working on legislation to bolster the state's protections for consumers. But now that President Donald Trump has attacked the federal government's consumer watchdog,

The Trump administration insists the financial watchdog is safe for now, but as in administrations past, it can be made into whatever officials want it

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is in the crosshairs of a White House that has halted its work, closed its headquarters and fired dozens of its workers.

Trump's decision to stop work at the agency appears to have halted compensation, according to the Student Borrower Protection Center in Washington.

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.

The agency's work stoppage also calls into question the fate of potentially hundreds of millions of dollars of separate payouts from financial services companies like Cash App par