CFPB Staff Purge begins with dozens of finished employees

He Consumer Financial Protection Office He sent termination notices to several dozen employees on Tuesday night, according to people with knowledge of the situation.

The affected personnel were mostly those with evidence, the people said, who asked for anonymity to speak frankly after the orders of stopping all the agency’s work, including talking with journalists.

Being on probation means that the employee is in a probationOften lasting one or two years, after starting a new government position, and does not reflect the performance, people said.

The measure is produced in the middle of a broader effort under the president Donald Trump To cut federal staff. The Personnel Management Office asked federal agencies for lists of all recently hired workers because they are the easiest to finish, NBC News reported. That has fueled the fears of layoffs in places as different as the Federal Research Office and the Environmental Protection Agency.

CFPB staff has been highly strung Since the end of last week, when the agents of the Efficient Department of the Government of Elon Musk obtained access to the agency. The CFPB headquarters have been closed since then, while the employees were said When the CFPB director Russell Vought acts not to do any office work. Both musk and VOUCHT have asked the elimination of CFPB.

The terminations have sown more confusion in the office, since several of those who were fired had already accepted federal purchase offers, said one of the people.

Some were fired received letters so that they did not include their specific names and titles, but left some fields full of generic position markers, said this person.

The endings came to the Division of Application of the CFPB in particular due to an impulse under former director Rohit Chopra to promote the hiring of application lawyers, said another person. The agency had around 1,700 employees before the work cuts.

The CFPB declined to comment.