Nearly 400 videos from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) YouTube channel have been deleted as the Trump administration continues to scale back the agency.
The CFPB, which oversees consumer protection in financial services, has also seen its Facebook and X accounts taken down, along with parts of its official website.
The CFPB’s YouTube channel, created in 2011 and followed by around 15,000 subscribers, previously hosted videos offering financial advice, such as tips on disputing credit report errors and improving credit scores. An archived version of the page from February 8 showed 386 videos, but by Friday, all content had been removed. The agency’s main homepage now returns a 404 error, though some pages remain accessible.
The removals are part of a broader effort to dismantle the agency, which has increasingly clashed with major tech companies. Notably, X (formerly Twitter), owned by Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk, falls under the CFPB’s oversight. Meanwhile, around 20 of the agency’s technologists were abruptly fired on Thursday, gutting a team responsible for ensuring accountability in financial technology services.
The government has also been scrubbing various web pages in response to President Trump’s executive orders. Some removed health-related pages were recently reinstated following a court order, albeit with disclaimers against “gender ideology.” In a temporary legal intervention, a judge issued an order on Friday evening to halt further CFPB staff firings without cause and prevent the deletion of agency records until at least a March 3 hearing.
