CFPB employees say Daij is trying to reduce the agency

The Ministry of Governmental efficiency (DOGE) plans to launch the “vast majority” of employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Office (CFPB), and the agency’s employees – some of whom use borrowed names for fear of revenge – for a federal court in specific advertisements.

Seven current employees and five former CFPB employees Advertisements were submitted As part of the issue of the National Treasury Union against the Director of the Administration and Budget Office, Russell Fion, who is currently working as the Acting Director of CFPB. The Federation seeks to stop dismantling financial services already, which includes thousands of consumer complaints every week about financial products, and As of 2023She returned 17.5 billion dollars to consumers for 12 years through things such as the cash compensation and the debt that was canceled. Earlier this month, freedom I mentioned Nearly 20 technicians were launched at the agency suddenly on a weekly night, in the middle of A. Wider From the demobilization of workers. The court has I temporarily prevented CFPB of more discounts.

Four of the current seven employees rejected their names publicly, but they offered the definition of themselves to the court under a seal. In ads, presented under the penalty of perjury, employees described a hasty shooting process published by Dog, with rapid thinking regarding those who will deal with consumer protection issues and CFPB data as soon as the agency destroyed. It has been prevented from stopping the agency, even from doing the necessary work to “maintain the security and stability of computer systems in CFPB,” according to one of the ads.

One current employee, Using a pseudonym, Alex de“It was directed to help ending the vast majority of CFPB staff as quickly as possible,” says, on February 13. Alex de described a three -stage approach: First, they shoot the latest test staff in the agency; Second, the shooting “about 1,200 additional employees, by eliminating full offices, departments and units”; Third, most of the remaining employees are terminated within 60 to 90 days, “leaving an office that can not really perform any jobs, or there is no office at all.”

CFPB is responsible for ensuring that companies that provide financial services are not misleading to consumers or wandering in the law. Consumers can submit complaints to the agency about credit cards and loans, and the agency can also start enforcement and enforcement procedures, Like the previously completed person To monitor large digital payments as banks do.

The speed of the recent workers’ layoffs necessitated “bypassing many normal procedures, guarantee, and rules,” according to Alexu, who says that the end -of -end schedule was specifically dictated by the employee of Doug Jordan Week. They add that the court order, which temporarily prevented more shootings prevents the remaining match from passing on Valentine’s Day. CFPB and the White House did not immediately respond to the suspension requests.

At a meeting after the court order, Adam Martinez, the chief operational officer at CFPB, told the employees that “he had not yet known what the agency would play a similar role for CFPB or whether the office itself would continue technically with small employees to perform these jobs,” according to Alexu.

The current current employee, Using a pseudonym Blake duMartinez’s announcement is opposed to the court that consumers who were to be served by grievances in the student’s loan that CFPB now can resort to the agency’s general grievance office. “This is not possible, however, because the employees of the Secretary General of the Public Grievances Office have ordered not to do any work,” Blake de wrote. Unlike Martinez’s advertisement, Blake de says they saw evidence that CFPB was in contact with the Federal Reserve on how to return money there or to the cabinet.

Other statements raise issues about training of DOGE staff and employee privacy to deal with CFPB systems and concerns about the location of the agency’s data – which can include human resources and reasonable residence records -.

CFPB contractor Go in the name of Charlie de He says that the termination notifications of the contract they saw did not include notifications to maintain the usual data to ensure that the CFPB data is not lost. Between February 11 and 14, the agency issued the termination notifications for more than a hundred contracts, says Charlie de, including those that maintain a consumer complaint database and ensure that it is cleaned of personal information, and ignored comments from employees about contracts that were necessary to keep them.

“The hasty termination of all office contracts led to the suspension of systems and services before returning CFPB or contract employees CFPB,” fourth employee, Dro DuHe writes. “Since not all systems contain backup copies outside the line, some CFPB data has been deleted. Of other things, this data may include HR records CFPB, reasonable residence records, grievances records, and equal job records. The data may not be recovered, and as of February 25, CFPB tries to know the systems and services that have records.”

It seems that some hasty work apparently deliberately. Director of Digital Services CFPB Adam Scott Email exchange He was copied to the court, where he told the agency’s chief information official, Christopher Chelbert, to the employee that he had understood that the deleted home page of CFPB was a decision made by Vough, “It was not a mistake by the members of the DOGE team.”

Drew Doe claims that DOGE staff “has been given distinct access to CFPB systems and data, without following the process that CFPB usually requires doing this,” including signing documents on CFPB system governance and data. In meetings during the past two weeks, they add, the agency’s senior executives have told the agency, “The CFPB will only be in the name.”