The leadership and staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) clashes in the court whether the Trump administration is trying to reduce the agency and if it allows workers to legally continue their required duties. Now, a major agency executive is expected to testify at the hearing next week, when the agency will be discontinued before the agency has a chance to weigh after the judge’s concern.
CFPB has been targeted by Alon Musk, Government Efficiency Department (DOGE) Posting “Rip” The agency, in early February, wants to prevent its effective shutdown by the agency, and the lawsuit filed by the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU). Last week, some CFPB employees – some anonymous but who offered to provide their identity to the judge under the seal – submitted the oath statements that the Trump administration was trying to put the “vast majority” of the agency’s workers’ fire and made it so that “CFPB just exists in the name.”
On the weekend, the agency Chief Operating Officer Adam Martinez Respond To make allegations that he had misleaded the court about the future of the agency and what the workers were allowed to do. In the new declaration, Martinez says that the CFPB leadership really wants to “write” the agency.
But to discuss the preliminary order on the end of the hearing on Monday, Judge Amy Burman Jackson was concerned that the CFPB leadership was issuing directives, “people’s fingers crossing their backs,” Morberg law Journalist Ivan Wineburger. Jackson The ways to ensure the agency noted “Don’t go out of existence before I rule,” Winburger RegisteredSaying that Martinez will be called to testify next week at the hearing at 10am on Monday.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson is concerned that the CFPB is issuing leadership directives “fingers of people cross behind their backs”
CFPB applies law and writes rules for the financial services industry, which comes more and more from the tech companies to include both traditional finance companies and digital products of financial services projects. Under its typical operation, the agency will raise complaints of financial products and customers about Regulate digital payment applications, Like the kind of Kasturi planning to fur.
There is an allegation of NTEU Staff to prevent their work. Martinez Declaration to February 24th Court Attempted to establish the staff allowed to continue the necessary work legally. But last week, many current and former CFPB employees told the court that the Trump administration was actually demanding closure of the agency and the legally mandatory work was halted. They quoted Martinez’s own references for “the agency’s closure” in early February, which he said was in “Wind down mode”.
In his Declaration on Sunday, Martinez tried to explain the alleged inconsistencies. He did not dispute the portrayal of his statements, saying that he reflected his understanding of the agency’s leadership at that time. But since then, “a big deal has evolved on the CFPB,” says Martinez.
Once February Me February was named as CFPB’s acting chief, Martinez says, the focused agency turned to “right size”. Although the statements of CFPB employees from Martinez came after the appointment of votes of the vote, he said, because he still saw it as a “very fluid situation” during that week, and “the bureau needed time for a new leadership to Reefus.” Martinez says that the new leadership has taken a systematic approach to “handling the bureau’s performance and responding to senior officials who have recommended or requested guidance to perform every critical legal responsibilities of the CFPB.”
Martinez suspected an employee’s announcement that anonymous senior officials said that the agency did not exist, saying that he would be “inconsistent” with leadership directions. He also pushed back Declaration from Matthew FuffCFPB Chief STFF staff of the office of Consumer Response, who said the agency complaints – which are not being monitored or investigated by the growing case management team, generally, are not monitored or investigated. Martinez claims that, by February 27, the increased case management team is working.
“For those who face immediate situations – AG, a person who represents a complaint of losing his home for an imminent pre -payment – there is no one in the CFPB to help.”
But it is “clearly wrong,” Fufffe says in a New announcement Reply to Martinez’s updated statement. “For those who face immediate situations – for the person, the person who represents the complaint of losing his home for an imminent pre -payment – there is no one in the CFPB to help.” The supervisor of the increased case management team also Oath announcementUsing a nickname for fear of revenge, saying that his team did not work with the February 10 order of “Staying Stand in any task”, which says that “there is no exception to legal compulsory tasks.”
Martinez claims that they are individually helping to clarify what legitimate obligations they say they can continue. But Fuff AFF says that Martinez did not provide guidance after sending a memo about “key legal work” two weeks ago and says “Mr. Martinez is aware of many inquiries, requested authenticity to do a legally authentic task, which has been ignored.”
Before the hearing on Monday, the agency tried to button up its response, showing the characteristic of any interpretation of its previous instructions to stop the legally compulsory work. In the email received by EdgeCFPB Chief Legal Officer Mark Paoleta writes that it has come to his attention “that some employees are not doing the necessary work legally. Let me be clear: Employees should do the work they need by law and do not need to get prior approval to do so. “
