The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau deleted at least 2,200 webpages from its website in early 2025. The removed content included press releases, consumer advisories, congressional testimonies, speeches, and blog posts published before the second term of the Trump administration.
The deleted material included content published as early as 2010, the year the bureau was established. At least 2,228 posts published between September 17, 2010, and January 30, 2025, were deleted from the agency's newsroom website. The removed posts included consumer advisories related to home insurance and know-your-rights pages for veterans.
The Trump administration appointed Russell Vought, White House budget director, as acting director of the bureau in February. Vought ordered agency employees to stop all work. He also dropped dozens of pending enforcement cases at the agency and attempted to terminate most of its staff. However, a federal judge blocked the termination of staff in a lawsuit filed by the agency's staff union.
Adam Rust, director of Financial Services at the Consumer Federation of America, said, "The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has rebalanced the odds between big banks and regular people." Tom Feltner, associate director of Consumer Policy at Americans for Financial Reform, said, "This is a desire to delete the story of the CFPB up until now and to start telling a new story, that the CFPB is in the way of innovation and that the CFPB is hurting, rather than helping, consumers."
The bureau announced the scaling back of enforcement regulations on payday lenders. The agency reduced fines on an electronic money-services provider from $2 million to $45,000 for misleading consumers about fees. Vought announced that the agency would return a six-figure financial penalty to a Chicago-based company cited for racial disparities in mortgage lending. The bureau also published a post claiming it previously used a redlining screen and radical equity arguments to penalize the Chicago-based company.
The agency withdrew a statement prohibiting creditors from using an applicant's citizenship status in lending decisions. Feltner, who previously worked at the bureau as a policy adviser and left in December 2025, said it was clear that the administration was not listening to consumers. He added that the focus was primarily on the rollback of consumer protections.