President Trump overcharged the agency this week for an overhaul of the agency.
Trump signed an order this week indicating that he would launch a massive “power reduction,” also known as the RIF, as part of implementing Elion Musk's Government Efficiency (DOGE)-led initiative.
The order covers many federal agencies, including the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPB), the United States International Development Agency (USAID), and the Department of Education.
This is the Trump rollbacks from various agencies.
CFPB
Of the approximately 1,700 people working at the bureau, approximately 70 employees have been fired from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The employees who were left were primarily on probation.
Jonathan McCernan served as director of the Office of Management and Budget in place of acting director Russell Vought. As acting director, Vought ordered employees to stop all work and announced that they would not take the agency's final drawdown from the Federal Reserve.
“In the current fiscal environment, the bureau's current $711.6 million balance is actually excessive. This spigot, which has long contributed to the CFPB's inexplainableness, is now off,” he said. teeth I said on social platform x.
Despite the cuts, Richard Cordray, the first director of the CFPB who served under the Obama administration from 2012 to 2017, said the Trump administration was more careful about slashes at the CFPB compared to other institutions. He said he thinks he is. Around the law that created the bureau.
“In a sense, this suggests that the rest of the employees are aware of legal protections and move more slowly and more carefully in that respect,” Cordray said. “I'm not sure they think they're just going to drop a nuclear bomb in that place and that they'll serve the American people well.”
“There's a reason for the alarm at first, but there are a few other reasons why I think the cooler head is dominated here over time,” he added.
The CFPB also asks people to create a chip line for X and report to them whether it is being pursued by CFPB enforcement or supervisory staff that could violate Vought's “standdown order.”
USAID
Perhaps no agency has been hit harder than the US International Development Agency. Over the past few weeks, Musk's Doge has stopped the flow of foreign aid, dismantled the entire institution responsible for managing it, and fired thousands of people who work at agencies at the company. Domestic and international.
With a total of over 10,000 employees, the USAID has been reduced to just a few hundred. The issue is progressing through federal courts where judges blocked the freeze on foreign aid contracts.
Late Thursday evening, a judge issued a temporary termination, halt or halt work order in connection with the federal foreign aid award that existed before Trump returned to the White House. Blocked enforcement.
The fight for the future of the agency is also seen as current and former USAID employees suing Musk in his operations, and will be confirmed by the Senate before he acts in such a powerful way. He claims that it should have been.
The Trump team is committed to getting the USAID work done. Trump often cites it as the most prominent example of government fraud and waste. Trump and his administration often cite examples of “fraud” and “waste”, but they claim they found it at the agency, but there is a debate about how accurate and transparent their findings are there was.
When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn Thursday, he was the USAID launched by his uncle since then became a “sinister propagandist of totalitarianism” and Trump's recent at the agency He said he supported the actions of the company.
Education Department
Trump campaigned by a major overhaul or eliminated the Department of Education, and the president said Wednesday that he hoped the Department would “close soon” and called the agency a “big fraud.” .
Last week, Trump said the division is the next agency, and he would ask Musk to consider it, as well as requesting massive Pentagon spending, which accounts for more than half of the US total budget. Ministry of Education It is reportedly We fired some employees, but the amount is unclear.
Already a target, Trump signed an executive order on Friday to counterfeit federal funds for educational institutions implementing Covid-19 vaccine orders.
The department was the latest target, but Education Secretary Linda McMahon heard confirmations on Thursday and vowed to work with Congress to close the department. She said key programs run by the department should move to different parts of the federal government.
But Trump jokingly says he hopes McMahon will soon quit his job. Her appointment suggests that it is merely to oversee the demolition of the department.
Coderay, who was the Chief Operating Officer of the Federal Student Aid (FSA) office in the Education Department from 2021 to 2024, argued that it was “very complicated” to keep out various programs that operate within the department. did. Trump himself admits that he may not be able to do so under the agency without Congressional approval.
“The FSA needs FSA to provide funds, loans and Pell grants to millions of students across the country. And even if they close the Department of Education, they will have FSA somewhere else to let them go. , they probably have to be in the Treasury Department,” he said. But “they are not going to wipe out all federal support for funding higher education. It will kill schools across the country.”
SBA
Following Trump's executive order on Tuesday, more than 100 small business management (SBA) employees considered in probation situations; Reportedly, he received a notice of termination..
These came last week after receiving a similar notification. This was wrong until the president's executive order extended Doge's authority to fire workers.
Another Trump alliance faced a confirmation hearing this week to potentially cut off her agency. SBA head Kelly Roefler will be confirmed soon.
Trump attempts to fire SBA inspector General Hannibal “Mike” Ware, but he argued that their rescue should be considered illegal and should be recovered. It is part of.
IRS
Doge Aides arrived at the IRS on Thursday. When asked if he was expecting the IRS to be shut down, Trump said the service “looks like everyone else.”
Some IRS employees were said to be exempt from a delayed acquisition offer until after the April 15 deadline for individuals to file their tax returns. Employees reportedly reported They said they are exempted due to important work during tax season.
Over the federal government's 2 million labor force, more than 75,000 federal workers have made acquisitions so far.
The agency remains in the eyes of Trump bulls. A few days before the inauguration, the president said he wanted to create an “external revenue service” to collect tariffs and other income from abroad and compare it to the IRS.
Senator Ron Wyden (d-ore). issued a warning His followers of X His office heard “Doge is currently on the IRS.”
“That means Musk's henchmen are in a position to dig into a pack of data about all taxpayers in America. And if your refund is delayed, they can be a very reason. ” said the senator.
He warned that Doge's actions in the IRS to collect taxes from Americans could be similar to attempts to access the Treasury's payment system. Doge requested access to the system last weekend before federal judges banned special government officials and detailed government officials from outside.
