Media reports say the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) fired dozens of employees late Tuesday.
The agency has sent out layoff notices to about 70 probation employees, Reuters reported. The late-night purge comes as the recent Trump administration moved quickly to dismantle the Consumer Protection Agency.
The notification, signed by CFPB Chief Operating Officer Adam Martinez, appears to have failed to enter employee information, according to one email reviewed by Oka.
Russell Vert, the agency's acting director, newly confirmed management and budget director, ordered staff on Saturday to “stop all supervision and exam activities.” On Monday, he told employees to “stop from performing any work task.”
CFPB employees were also notified that the agency's headquarters would be closed that week, and Vought announced that he would not get the agency's next drawdown from the Federal Reserve.
The playbook closely follows a series of events that unfolded last week at the US International Development Agency. There, before employees are ordered to stop work and leave their headquarters, and officials try to leave thousands of employees on leave. The move was blocked by a federal judge on Friday.
As the Trump administration is trying to cut its federal workforce, people hired within the past year or two are attracting attention from people who are prone to firing.
The Personnel Management Office (OPM), which asked the agency to take over the list of probation employees, recently revealed that the agency doesn't need to fire all employees on probation. , encouraged to remove low performers.
“The Trump administration is encouraging the use of probationary periods as intended as a continuation of the job search process, rather than as a permanent qualification for employment in the DC swamp,” an OPM spokesman stated. stated in.
