A union filed two lawsuits against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Acting Director Russell Vought on Sunday after Vought issued a series of directives halting much of the bureau's activity.

The agency had been one of Wall Street’s most feared regulators, with the power to issue rules on mortgages, credit cards, student loans and other areas affecting Americans’ financial lives.

“Bureaucracies hate the American people,” Vought told Tucker Carlson, the rightwing media personality, as he set out how a second Trump administration would overhaul and cleanse the administrative state in America.