President Donald Trump announced that he has instructed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to halt the production of pennies, citing the high cost of producing the one-cent coins. CNN’s Rosemary Church ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was a target of conservatives since President Barack Obama created it in 2011 after ...

A New York federal judge issued an order blocking DOGE's access to treasury payments after 19 Democratic state attorneys ...

The decision came after Vice President JD Vance and then President Donald Trump backed the reinstatement of the staffer, ...

On January 31, 2025, the CFPB announced President Donald Trump had appointed Scott Bessent as Acting Director of the CFPB. In ...

The president’s focus on the 10-year Treasury yield is part of Trump’s efforts to bring down mortgage rates, a promise during ...

With interest costs surging, it may be time for the government to forcefully hold down long-term Treasury yields. How it can be done.

A group of unions asked for a temporary court order to stop the US Treasury Department from handing over personal and ...

Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren urged President Donald Trump to work with regulators to stop what she called unjustified ...

The Trump-Musk ransacking of the federal government must stop. The courts offer one important way to apply the brake, says an administrative law scholar. The Washington Monthly is an independent voice ...

The secretary replaces Rohit Chopra, who had aggressively sought to expand the bureau’s authority over banks and other ...

LGBTQ groups overall are pleased to have the first gay U.S. Treasury secretary. But that doesn't mean they had uniform ...