When Jonathan McKernan faces the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday for his confirmation hearing to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the biggest questions may focus less on him than on the fate of the CFPB itself.

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau dismissed its lawsuit accusing Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, a unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway , of driving borrowers into loans they could not afford to buy homes from Berkshire's Clayton Homes unit.

A keen interest in public service and financial inclusion drew the 26-year-old to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal government agency that monitors how banks and other big companies treat consumers,

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has all but ceased enforcement since the Trump administration ordered employees to stop working earlier in February.

Elon Musk’s young foot soldiers at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) were caught on camera for the first time as they walked into a federal agency building—part of an apparent attempt to shut it down.

Attorney Domenic Powell, who worked for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, wrote an essay about how to court-proof administrative branch decisions.

The fired head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said he sees the attack against the agency as "suspicious."

The fate of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, is uncertain as the agency and its workers have faced a tumultuous month of February so far, possibly leaving consumers with more questions than answers. Here's the latest and how it could ...

The CFPB's fate has looked grim since Trump took office last month and Thursday's actions confirmed its disassembly.