The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau deleted from its website all press releases, speeches, testimony, op-eds, and other public statements issued before the Trump administration took control of the agency.
All newsroom items published before February 2025 were removed Tuesday, according to a notice on the agency’s website.
The removal marks the Trump administration’s latest bid to upend the federal consumer finance watchdog while it also seeks to lay off hundreds of staff members.
The CFPB’s homepage was separately down as of Wednesday afternoon. The CFPB didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Representatives of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency took down the CFPB’s homepage in February 2025. Rather than restoring the original homepage, the Trump administration posted the portal for consumers to submit complaints about financial products or services.
The agency last year also revised the consumer complaint database, mandated by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, with industry-backed disclosures that consumer advocates said would drive down submissions.
Reports mandated by Congress and historical enforcement actions remained on the agency’s website as of late Wednesday.
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