WASHINGTON — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau removed at least 2,200 pages from its website in May, including years of press releases, consumer advisories, speeches, congressional testimony and blog posts published before President Donald Trump’s second term, according to a new report.
The Guardian reported that it identified the deleted content by comparing the CFPB’s current website with archived versions preserved by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and a mirror website maintained by a former CFPB employee.
According to the Guardian, the deleted materials covered a wide range of topics, with enforcement actions, mortgages, banking and rulemaking among the most common subjects identified through a review of archived metadata.
The publication reported that some of the removed content remains accessible through an archived version of the CFPB website hosted by a third-party vendor. The CFPB provides a link to that archive on its website, according to The Guardian.
Additional Data Removed
The report follows earlier coverage by Bloomberg Law, which reported May 20 that all CFPB newsroom content published before February 2025 had been removed from the agency’s website. Bloomberg Law also reported that the CFPB’s homepage was replaced in February with a portal focused on consumer complaints involving financial products and services, while congressionally mandated reports and historical enforcement actions remained available.
The website changes come as the bureau continues to undergo significant operational changes under the Trump administration.
As the CU Daily has been reporting, CFPB employees returned to agency offices in May after the regulator’s Washington headquarters had been largely shuttered for more than a year. The report said administration officials have scaled back earlier plans to significantly reduce the CFPB’s workforce after a court order blocked efforts to eliminate the agency.
Even so, staffing levels at the CFPB have fallen by approximately 30% since Trump returned to office, The Guardian reported, citing ongoing departures amid workforce reductions and uncertainty about the bureau’s future.
‘CFPB Costs Consumers $237 Billion’
The White House said in February that the CFPB had cost consumers at least $237 billion since its creation in 2011, arguing that the agency’s regulations increased compliance and liability costs associated with financial products and services.
The CFPB was established following the 2008 financial crisis and is responsible for overseeing consumer financial products and enforcing federal consumer protection laws.
