Democrats are calling on Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to cancel his stop work order for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) after employees with Elon Musk’s Department of ...

As described in FAR 52.242-15, stop-work orders may be issued at any time by written order of the contracting officer to stop part or all of the work being performed under the contract.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all its work, effectively shutting down an agency that was created to protect consumers ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all its work, effectively shutting down an agency that was created to protect ...

to halt much of its work, amid an ongoing overhaul of the federal bureaucracy. In an email to CFPB staff Saturday, Russ Vought — the newly confirmed director of the Office of Management and ...

The report suggests that USAID could have seen its 10,000-strong workforce reduced to just 300, with the new figure emerging as a deadline for all other employees to stop work and start ...