About a year before the subprime mortgage meltdown brought the global financial system to its knees, a Harvard Law School professor made the case for launching a new regulator to protect consumers getting ripped off by mortgages,

The Massachusetts senator decries Trump’s vandalism of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Musk’s “Mount Everest of conflicts”

US Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren is pushing back against Elon Musk and President Donald Trump over efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an agency she helped create in 2007.

“RIP CFPB,” Musk posted on X last week, alongside a tombstone emoji.

Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency have been granted access to a sensitive Treasury Department payment system containing personal data of millions of Americans receiving tax refunds,

Senator Elizabeth Warren assailed Donald Trump and adviser Elon Musk for shuttering the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, saying they were effectively sidelining the nation’s “financial cops.”

Warren is a champion of the CFPB, no doubt, but the decisions that so anger Silicon Valley's right-wing elite were made by Rohit Chopra, who ran the agency during the Biden administration.

Senator Elizabeth Warren accused Elon Musk and Donald Trump of leaving American consumers completely exposed to financial exploitation after “illegally shutting down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).