Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), ranking member of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Andy Kim (D-N.J.) and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) recently wrote to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Acting Director Russell Vought, pressing for additional information on the deletion of almost 15 years of content from the CFPB website — including all press releases, testimony and speeches published before President Trump’s second term, as well as consumer advisories, notices of settlements on behalf of consumers, original research and major reports.

In May 2026, the CFPB deleted website pages and newsroom items published before February 2025.

According to the senators’ letter, “These deleted pages provided crucial information that helped Americans protect themselves against unfair, deceptive and abusive practices — and also served as a repository of corporate predatory behavior. You [Vought] have erased a source of records of abusive corporate conduct that underpinned the CFPB’s decisions under prior administrations to levy enforcement actions against those lawbreaking companies.”

The letter noted that the CFPB has dismissed or terminated at least 42 enforcement actions against banks, tech firms and other corporations since February 2025. Dismissed lawsuits involved major industry players such as J.P. Mortgage Chase and Bank of America, while terminated orders involved companies like Navy Federal Credit Union.

In addition, consumer advisories were removed from the website, including an overview of predatory practices associated with loans.

The CFPB also removed all 35 Supervisory Highlights reports, which summarized the bureau’s supervision of financial institutions and included anonymized descriptions of the supervisory actions from each administration dating back to 2012.

The letter noted that even though the Federal Records Act prohibits the CFPB from destroying internal databases, current employees have stated that all information deleted from the website “seems[s] to have [been] destroyed.” In 2025, a federal district court also barred the CFPB from “destroying records and deleting data.”

“The impact of this deletion is extensive,” the letter stated. “Prior CFPB documentation identified the importance of the agency as a ‘trusted source of financial research and educational resources’ and individuals from non-profits, think tanks and government all identified the website as a valuable tool with resources that assisted their day-to-day work.”

According to the letter, the CFPB’s website lists “vague acknowledgement of the removal of pages and directs users to an externally hosted archive to access deleted content. This archive is not a replacement for a federal government website.”

“By effectively deleting 15 years’ worth of information generated by the CFPB, you [Vought] are cutting off a secure and trustworthy source of knowledge for millions of people, including consumers, private sector and government employees, and regulators,” the letter stated.

The senators asked the CFPB to provide the following information by July 2:

• Provide a list of all records, including duplicate records, that were removed from the CFPB’s website and the associated record schedule, and explain where the original record is preserved.
• Explain the reasoning behind the mass removal and deletion of the website content?
• Explain who was responsible for deciding what content was removed from the blog section and newsroom section of the CFPB website and the removal of the Supervisory Highlights reports, and explain the evaluation and decision-making process of removing content.
• List all consumer settlement notices removed along with the reasoning for removing them.
• List all consumer advisories removed along with the reasoning for removing them.
• Provide information on upcoming consumer advisory notices the bureau plans to publish.
• List all supervisory information, including information contained in Supervisory Highlights reports along with the reasoning for removing them.
• Will the CFPB continue to publish Supervisory Highlights reports going forward? If so, provide information on the timing and content, including how the bureau plans to convey supervisory priorities and summaries of actions taken.
• Does the CFPB plan to delete any other content from its website? If so, list which content and the reasoning behind the deletion.
• Were any alternatives to removing the content, such as archiving the content on the CFPB website itself, considered? If so, provide information on all alternatives considered and please share why the content was removed instead.