Musk's Doge takes aim at US consumer protection agency
The billionaire aide to Donald Trump indicates he wants to see the end of an agency founded after the financial crash of 2007-8.
US consumer finance watchdog workers protest Musk's DOGE
Workers at the U.S. Consumer Finance Protection Bureau demonstrated outside its headquarters on Saturday protesting Elon Musk's assault on the agency. The union said Musk's DOGE agency had improper access to the bureau's systems which could potentially jeopardize sensitive data and also said the CFPB could regulate a business Musk has indicated plans to enter.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is Musk's next target
Members of Elon Musk’s team have reportedly descended upon the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the latest target of Musk and President Donald Trump.
DOGE Is Now Inside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
DOGE staffers will get read-only access to CFPB data, systems, and equipment, according to an internal email reviewed by WIRED.
Musk's team takes control of key systems at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the latest target of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
Musk's team lands at consumer bureau
Three Musk allies, some of whom are tied to his Department of Government Efficiency, have embedded with the consumer bureau, according to the CFPB’s employees union.
DOGE gets access into Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as OMB's Russell Vought takes over as acting head of federal consumer watchdog agency
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is an outlet for Americans dealing with issues such as questionable student loan servicing practices or excessive bank overdraft fees.
Judge blocks Elon Musk's DOGE from accessing Americans' sensitive data
Elon Musk and his team of cost-cutters at the Department of Government Efficiency have found their next target, the Consumer ...
Musk's DOGE Descends on CFPB With Eyes on Shutting It Down
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has embedded itself inside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the ...
Workers at US consumer watchdog CFPB protest as Trump appointee takes over
About 100 workers at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau protested outside the agency's headquarters on Saturday, ...
Russell Vought takes the helm at CFPB as Musk's DOGE accesses key systems
Vought was an architect of Project 2025. He takes over at the consumer finance watchdog as Elon Musk's representatives gained access to the bureau's systems and accounts, including sensitive data.
OMB head Russell Vought takes over as CFPB as acting head, DOGE team deletes X account
Russell Vought took over as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday night and officials from ...
Unions lose fight to bar DOGE from Labor Department data
A federal judge rejected an attempt by some of the United States’s most powerful unions to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing the Department of Labor’s data.
Musk's next target? Trump says DOGE will look at Department of Education, Pentagon funding
President Donald Trump said that he has instructed Elon Musk with looking into wasteful government spending at the Department ...