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More than 1,400 Consumer financial protection office (Cfpb) The workers were made from their positions in the middle of a wider one on Thursday Trump Administration Schaching with the independent government agency, Sources tell WIRED. There were around 1,700 employees in in total At CFPB.

The mass reduction of violence or rif is almost a month after a federal judge was issued a temporary injunction Apart from the Trump management From removing subject workers at the CFPB and other agencies. On Friday, An appellate court decided That the CFPB could start the dismissals again as long as “individual reviews” were carried out for each employee ended. Around 200 employees will remain at the CFPB, which the agency effectively calves, which Elon Musk previously said should be deleted. ‘

In an e -mail that was sent to CFPB employees on Wednesday, the CFPB chief Legal Officer Mark Paoletta announced that the agency would shift its focus from its supervisory roles to the “tangible damage to consumers”. Medical debts, student loans, consumer data and digital payments were identified as topics that the CFPB will “deprive”, according to the document.

“As far as I can say that, it literally affects every office to be completely wiped out at least some of them,” says a CFPB worker. “In the end, I suspect there will only be a few leading positions left, plus Skeleton crew for functions of the office, which are very obviously prescribed by law.

The CFPB was set up by the Dodd-Frank Act 2010, an expansive legal provisions that imposed the subsequent reform after the 2008 financial crisis. The agency was founded to protect consumers from unfair or fraudulent financial practices, and it Claims Responsible for 19.7 billion US dollars of consumer relief since its foundation and 5 billion US dollars in civil terms

“You did not follow the CBA (collective bargaining agreements), Dodd-Frank not followed and have not given anyone adequately announced,” claims a CFPB employee who lost her job on Thursday.

Muschus and other conservatives demanded the CFPB destroyed for some time. The chapter in 2025 on financial supervisory authorities describes it as “highly politicized, harmful and extremely inexplicable federal authority” and calls on to have abolished it. In February, Musk wrote “rip cfpb” with a tombstone -emoji in an X -Post. In November he posted “Delete CFPB”.

In February, WIRED reported that three Doge employees, including Gavin Kliger and Nikhil Rajpal, received access to HR, procurement and financial infrastructure from CFPB. The workers of Doge was later granted access to all systems of the agency on Friday, Bloomberg reportedincluding bank examination and enforcement documents. Further inquiries for access to Doge continued in the course of the month.

“Do not pay attention to what you say about CFPB, make sure what you are doing,” said Emily Peterson-Cassin, the corporate power director of the Demand Progress Education Fund, in an explanation that reacted on Thursday. “And what they do is systematically all efforts to protect service members and all Americans from fraud and fraud, while at the same time leaving the Wall Street, Big Banks and Big Tech off the hook.”

Additional reporting from Zoë Schiffer.