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The podcast we are releasing today is part 1 of a re-purposed webinar we produced on March 25 titled “The Impact of the Election on the CFPB – Part 4.” As a result of the diminishing impact of the CFPB on enforcing the consumer financial services laws, we expect that void to be filled by state government enforcement agencies and private civil litigation, including class and mass actions.… Continue Reading

The Trump Administration has appealed an order by a federal District Court Judge blocking the CFPB from firing 1483 employees effective in June 2025 and cutting off their access to CFPB work systems on April 18, 2025.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia last week barred the CFPB from dramatically reducing its staffing, saying she is concerned that CFPB officials are ignoring her earlier order, as modified by the D.C.… Continue Reading

The CFPB is rescinding its existing enforcement and supervision priority documents, according to a memo sent to bureau staff by CFPB Chief Legal Officer Mark Paoletta.

The CFPB will focus its enforcement and supervision resources on pressing threats to consumers, particularly servicemembers, their families, as well as veterans, Paoletta wrote, in a memo to bureau employees.… Continue Reading

Republicans on the House Financial Services Financial Institutions Subcommittee have sent Acting CFPB Director Russell Vought a letter calling for the CFPB to withdraw a wide variety of final and proposed rules.

In addition, the GOP members are calling for the CFPB to withdraw guidance documents, circulars, interpretive rules, and advisory opinions that did not go through the comment period required under the Administrative Procedure Act.… Continue Reading

The Trump Administration’s efforts to “effectively shutter the CFPB” amounts to a “total dereliction of all mandatory statutory duties,” that will harm state consumer protection efforts, Democratic state attorneys general have told a Washington, D.C. federal judge.

“The CFPB has, to date, been an invaluable partner to many States in performing a variety of consumer-protection functions mandated by Congress,” the 23 state officials said, in an amicus brief in a suit filed by the National Treasury Employees Union.… Continue Reading

Earlier today Jonathan McKernan, President Trump’s nominee to head the CFPB, pledged that the agency would “implement and enforce the federal consumer financial laws and perform each of its other statutorily assigned functions.”

The comment, made during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, came in stark contrast to the Trump Administration’s previous statements that it intends to take the actions necessary to dismantle the CFPB.… Continue Reading

More than 185 Democrats in the House and Senate are urging Trump Administration officials to restore the enforcement and supervisory powers of the CFPB.

“The Trump Administration has effectively fired the financial cop on the beat and declared open season for predatory lenders and scam artists working to steal Americans’ money and threaten their financial security,” the Democrats wrote, in a joint letter to Russell Vought, acting director of the CFPB and director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who served as acting director of the bureau for a short period of time.… Continue Reading

Acting CFPB Director Russell Vought has temporarily put a halt to virtually all of the agency’s work.

President Trump designated Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as acting bureau director Friday night. He replaced Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who had served as acting CFPB director until Vought’s appointment.… Continue Reading

As we previously blogged about, Acting Director Scott Bessent circulated a message throughout the CFPB on February 3 directing “…all employees, contractors, and other personnel of the Bureau:

  • Not to approve or issue any proposed or final rules or formal or informal guidance.
  • To suspend the effective dates of all final rules that have been issued or published but that have not yet become effective.
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Our podcast show today features John Culhane and Mike Kilgarriff, partners in Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Financial Services group. They discuss what supervision and enforcement will look like under a new acting director/director appointed by President Trump. This episode is a repurposing of the second half of a webinar that was produced on January 6.… Continue Reading