Trump axes Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

CFPB gutted in latest Trump admin move to cut gov‑ernment waste . . .OMB Director Russell Vought gutted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Saturday, one day af‑ter President Donald Trump tapped him to serve as the agency’s acting director. One of Vought’s first acts at the CFPB was to issue a broad freeze of operations, including on new rules, guidance, investigations, a...