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Trump administration halts work at federal consumer watchdog

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Russel Vought , the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau , ordered staffers at the agency to stop all work in an email Saturday night .

Vought wrote on X that he cut off new funding to the agency responsible for protecting American consumers.

The agency "will not be taking its next draw of unappropriated funding because it is not 'reasonably necessary'.

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