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First in Fox: Three leaders in the Consumer Financial Protection Office (CFPB) were placed on administrative license on Tuesday, Fox News Digital confirmed.
The legal director of the Office of Administration and Budget, Mark Paoletta, placed Lorelei Salas, the CFPB Supervision Director, and Eric Halperin, Chief of Execution of the Agency, and Zixta Martínez, Deputy Director of the Agency, on a license on Administrative, a spokesman for CFPB Newn Digital on Tuesday.
The resignations occur after the interim director of the Office of Administration and Budget, Russ Vought, told CFPB employees on Monday not to inform work and “obtain written approval before performing any work task.” The secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, broke briefly as an interim director of CFPB before Vought in early February, and also told employees to stop their work “unless the interim director is expressly approved or required by law by law “
CFPB spokesman told Fox News Digital that Halperin challenged Besent’s order and resigned in response to licensed on Tuesday. Halperin realized his permission by email and responded six minutes after he was renouncing, the The New York Post reported the earliest Tuesday.
A view of the Consumer Financial Protection Office (CFPB) office in Washington, DC, on February 10, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP through Getty Images)
“I write to notify my resignation … Since the building is closed, provide instructions on how to return my team,” he reported that Halperin responded to the email. “Thanks for the opportunity to serve. It was an honor.”
Salas also “sent an email explosion” in response to the notification that he was also licensed, but did not officially present his resignation, spokesman told Fox News Digital.
The couple affirms the journalists who resigned, instead of being placed on license, to “try to save their face,” added the spox.
When he approached him to comment, a spokesman for Salas and Halperin told Fox Digital that the Trump administration was working to “neglect” government employees.
“As we have seen many times, Trump and Musk are trying to put aside the dedicated public servants who will not accompany their plans to violate the law,” said the spokesman. “CFPB staff has the responsibility of protecting consumers, and that includes maintaining long data laws in books.”
Three leaders of the Consumer Financial Protection Office (CFPB) were placed on administrative license on Tuesday, confirmed Fox News Digital. (Saul Loeb/AFP through Getty Images)
Both Halperin and Salas have ties with the nonprofit organization of the left billionario George Soros, the Open Society Foundation, a 2021 CFPB press release. Halperin served as the main advisor of the American program of Open Society Foundations, his biography in A CFPB press release establishes, while Salas received a government scholarship from the foundations of the open society.
The CFPB is an independent government agency responsible for protecting consumers from unfair financial practices in the private sector. It was created in 2010 under the administration of Obama after the financial accident in 2008.
Elon Musk leads the government’s efficiency department. (Anna MoneyMaker/Getty images)
The government efficiency department, led by Elon Musk, He has been investigating several federal agencies in February in search of finding and eliminating excessive government spending, fraud and corruption.
On Friday, Musk published a message in X, reading, “CFPB RIP”, building anticipation that the agency was the next investigation to face.
Since then, the protests have organized outside the CFPB headquarters in Washington, including Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, who originally proposed the agency, declaring in the streets: “We are here to defend itself.”
Since then, the protests have organized outside the CFPB headquarters in Washington, including Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, who originally proposed the agency, declaring in the streets: “We are here to defend itself.” (Jemal Countess/Getty images for Moveon)
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“This is like a bench thief who tries to shoot the police and turn off the alarm just before he walks towards the lobby,” Warren told the crowd Mondays.
“The financial police, the CFPB, are there to make sure that Elon’s new project cannot cheat or steal their confidential personal data,” Warren said. “Then, Elon’s solution echoed the police, kills the CFPB.”
