Vought sent an email to employees this morning saying they should “not perform any work tasks.” They were directed to contact the top lawyer for the Office of Management and Budget “to get approval in writing before performing any work task.”Posted on 02/10/2025 12:43:38 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought is also the interim Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The CFPB is under review by DOGE and on Monday morning Russ Vought told CFPB staff not to come to work. {Background Here}
Vought sent an email to employees this morning saying they should “not perform any work tasks.” They were directed to contact the top lawyer for the Office of Management and Budget “to get approval in writing before performing any work task.”
Vought is also serving as the bureau’s acting director. The previous director, Rohit Chopra, was fired by Trump, a Republican, on Feb. 1. Vought’s message followed one on Saturday evening that ordered the bureau to “cease all supervision and examination activity.”
(Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s newly installed chief of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau told all of the agency’s staff on Monday to stay away from the office and do no work, according to an email reviewed by Reuters.
The move followed a weekend decision to shutter the CFPB’s Washington headquarters, idling a federal agency of nearly 2,000 workers tasked with enforcing consumer financial laws.
“Employees should not come into the office,” acting CFPB Director Russell Vought said in an email to all staff. “Please do not perform any work tasks.”
Vought, a longtime budget hawk, took control of the agency on Friday. He is architect of the right-wing policy manifesto known as Project 2025, which called for the CFPB’s abolition.
Efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to neutralize the agency escalated over the weekend as billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency gained full access to CFPB computer systems. Vought ordered a stop to all oversight of consumer financial companies. (read more)
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CPFB) was originally created by congress (Elizabeth Warren lead) as a quasi-constitutional watchdog agency to reach into the banking and financial system, under the guise of oversight, and extract money by fining entities for CFPB defined regulatory and/or compliance violations
Essentially, the CFPB is a congressionally authorized far-left extortion scheme in the banking sector. The CFPB levies fines; the fines generate income; however, unlike traditional fines that go to the U.S. treasury, the CFBP fines are then redistributed to left-wing organizations to help fund their political activism. {GO DEEP}
“Elon Musk and Russ Vought aren’t just testing the limits of the law — they’re shattering them, daring anyone to stop them,” said Leah Greenberg, co-executive director of the activist group Indivisible. “This attack on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is illegal, unconstitutional, and a blatant power grab by billionaires who want to rig the system even further in their favor.” (link)
NO MORE CHECKS.
What in the world is a “Rohit Chopra”?
WHO LET THE DOGS OUT? WHO? WHO?”
This is her baby
Pocahontas is very upset today
video
Trump letting Elon Musk and Project 2025 Architect Russ Vought kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Feb 10, 2025
https://rumble.com/v6j5rsg-warren-trump-letting-elon-musk-kill-the-consumer-financial-protection-burea.html
I love that photo!
Basically, he’s telling them don’t come to work and don’t do any work tasks. A bit redundant, if you ask me. After all, they’re federal employees. Isn’t this exactly what they have been doing the last 4 years?
All I can say to Elizabeth Warren is... Have a freaking stroke!
When Vought told them to stop work, I assume they replied “Work? What work? After all, we’re Federal Employees!”
Looks like AI..not real photo
I don’t see why we need a Federal Agency. Every agency has a consumer oversight agency.
Ok, who is the federal judge that will order them back to work and when will he order it? Added bonus...will it be a DC judge or a SDNY judge?
That’s who let the DOGES out
At the very least this disruption will make potential parasites think twice about a career in the civil service.
If there is no job security and you can be canned every election, these creeps will look to not work somewhere else. Like George Costanza.
They are all on their sofas at home anyway.
On Warpath!
Next stop: Firewater.
Liawatha is on the WARPATH!
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