Americans for Financial Reform
July 15, 2026

Timeline of attacks against the CFPB

Since the first weeks of the current administration, the Trump-appointed CFPB leadership and Republicans in Congress have worked to carry out the Project 2025 goal of dismantling the Bureau. While these efforts have been blocked in court, the Trump-Vought CFPB has continued to chip away at the agency’s staff, roll back critical protections, drop enforcement cases and let scofflaws off the hook, slash its budget, and undermine the powers it was granted by Congress to stop financial abuse, prevent scams, and keep the country out of another financial crisis.

You can view an up-to-date, day-by-day summary of the attacks on the CFPB below.