Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought is also the interim Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The CFPB is under review by DOGE and on Monday morning Russ Vought told CFPB staff not to come to work. {Background Here}
Vought sent an email to employees this morning saying they should “not perform any work tasks.” They were directed to contact the top lawyer for the Office of Management and Budget “to get approval in writing before performing any work task.”
Vought is also serving as the bureau’s acting director. The previous director, Rohit Chopra, was fired by Trump, a Republican, on Feb. 1. Vought’s message followed one on Saturday evening that ordered the bureau to “cease all supervision and examination activity.”
(Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s newly installed chief of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau told all of the agency’s staff on Monday to stay away from the office and do no work, according to an email reviewed by Reuters.
The move followed a weekend decision to shutter the CFPB’s Washington headquarters, idling a federal agency of nearly 2,000 workers tasked with enforcing consumer financial laws.
“Employees should not come into the office,” acting CFPB Director Russell Vought said in an email to all staff. “Please do not perform any work tasks.”
Vought, a longtime budget hawk, took control of the agency on Friday. He is architect of the right-wing policy manifesto known as Project 2025, which called for the CFPB’s abolition.
Efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to neutralize the agency escalated over the weekend as billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency gained full access to CFPB computer systems. Vought ordered a stop to all oversight of consumer financial companies. (read more)
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CPFB) was originally created by congress (Elizabeth Warren lead) as a quasi-constitutional watchdog agency to reach into the banking and financial system, under the guise of oversight, and extract money by fining entities for CFPB defined regulatory and/or compliance violations
Essentially, the CFPB is a congressionally authorized far-left extortion scheme in the banking sector. The CFPB levies fines; the fines generate income; however, unlike traditional fines that go to the U.S. treasury, the CFBP fines are then redistributed to left-wing organizations to help fund their political activism. {GO DEEP}
“Elon Musk and Russ Vought aren’t just testing the limits of the law — they’re shattering them, daring anyone to stop them,” said Leah Greenberg, co-executive director of the activist group Indivisible. “This attack on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is illegal, unconstitutional, and a blatant power grab by billionaires who want to rig the system even further in their favor.” (link)
Yes….please audit this fake department.
Audits will make a crooked politician do anything. Lol
Reporter: Mr. Trump, do you know how many people work in the federal government?
President Trump: About 10%
LOL!
There he goes overestimating things again. Letitia James and Alvin Bragg may come knocking.
Based upon PJDT’s latest edicts, those 2 clowns can keep on knockin’ but they can’t come in (to Federal Buildings that is).
You tell ’em Fats Baby!!
I HEAR YOU KNOCKING
Thanks for some Fats!! Perfect!!
well said
Thanks for the full belly laugh!
I took a screen shot and posted it on GAB!
I hope you don’t mind!
https://gab.com/wlbeattie/posts/113982171124104383
Not at all…
Thanks Will!
🙂
💯😆😆
He must have Indian blood too.
Are they from the same tribe?
There is a helluva resemblance there!
Fake department, courtesy of a fake indian.
SquatsWithRadicals
Love it 😊
President Trump is one for the ages…
The precision and speed of these actions is “a thing of beauty”
Heads are spinning all over D.C.
Cheers!
Honestly, I’m having trouble keeping up with the treehouse! I can’t even imagine trying to keep up with our AMAZING President!
It’s great every bit of the swamp is being drained. As is becoming more evident by the day, every leftist Federal Circuit Court Judge is busy trying to issue nationwide injunctions to stop PDT from exposing all the waste and theft of taxpayer funds and implementing his agenda. Until SCOTUS ends the nationwide jurisdiction of the leftist inferior judges and reaffirms the separation of powers, the uniparty will try to keep the dirty money flowing.
Maybe I’m off base but the Congress created the courts below the SCOTUS. So it follows they could pass legislation to limit Federal judge decisions to their jurisdictions. We don’t need to wait for SCOTUS
From the Constitution:
Article III, Section 1:
“The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. …”
I believe that you are 100% correct. I had legislative jurisdiction issues described to me by a competent attorney regarding 2nd Amendment issues about 3 years ago.
Speaking of CONgress, what kind of oversight have they ever done on the inferior judiciary that the created?
Why do we need a judiciary committees if they’re not performing?
If that’s an inappropriate violation of separation of powers then why is the SCOTUS not performing oversight?
I need more popcorn!
We may come short of it soon !!!
Two things ya can do, dazzle with brilliance or baffle with bullshit! PDJT simply DAZZLES!
Thumbs up #100 just recorded.
Force them to justify their existence in full sunlight.
This is so good.
I have been wondering who might have standing to challenge this (not that lefty judges like the NY judge in the Treasury case was bothered by it).
Congress does not appropriate its money. The enabling legislation appears to be vaguely drafted just so a Dem appointee could say he was acting within his statutory authority.
Individual consumers or advocacy groups would have to show some potential harm for standing, and show how specific interests would be harmed by federal employees not working. It’s not as if the SS checks weren’t going to go out or anything.
Standing. Cuts both ways.
Unconstitutional lawfare retaliation in 3-2-1……
The corruptocracy is hell bent on provoking a point of overt confrontation.
Assuming our guys have clarity on who’s directing Dems down this path, it seems wise to make it clear that this is not in their best interest.
The alternative is likely very messy and perhaps not far off.
I’m honestly surprised the riots happened, seeing as how limp-wristed most of the Left is (when not fueled by berserker drugs), but had there been any sort of actual, organized pushback they would have ended immediately. There were a few isolated incidents where people did fight back and lo and behold, no riots there.
I think President Trump should appoint Kyle Rittenhouse as his Special Emissary For Control Of Riots (SEFCOR).
If that doesn’t make it clear, they can FAFO, hahaha!
The Dude is in his prime, only about 22 years old, works in a gun shop in FL, would be an asset to POTUS, with his proven courage, quick thinking and excellent trigger control (remember he only wounded the third POS who deserved way more).
Another plus is this would help the antifa lovers’ brains explode!
Ditto…
They have to use their own $$ now, the grifting gravy train has been derailed.
Trust God.
Fear not.
POTUS is the tank. These government agencies better keep their heads on a swivel
Using the metaphor of a military war tank for government. Congress puts in the fuel(money), enters the destination for travel in the navigation, and decides which targets to attack(War). The President is the only branch of government inside the Tank. The President controls the Brakes, Weapons fire switch, Loudspeaker, and only he can press the Accelerator. The Judicial system only has the ability to tell the President to apply the Brakes on US soil, but cannot enter the tank and do it themselves. They have no other control over any of the other systems of the tank. Only the President controls the Weapons fire switch and the Accelerator. The President has people under his command in the tank.
Now the Judicial branch wants to order the President to press the Accelerator, but they only have the power to order the Brakes. They try to enter the tank and press the Brakes outside of US soil. They order the other people under the Presidents command in the tank to not report what they see. They order the other people in the tank not to look around for the President even though the President ordered them to look around.
When the President leaves the tank and enters the Judiciary branch and orders them to do what the President wants, or when the President stops the Judiciary branch from doing their job it is call OBSTRUTION OF JUSTICE.
What is it called when the Judge enters the tank and issues orders inside the tank and tries to force the Presidents foot onto the accelerator pedal? What is it called when the Judge orders the President not to fire the weapons? What is it called when Congress ignores a President firing upon on country the Congress hasn’t targeted? What happens when the Senate Counsel on Foreign Relations enter the tank on foreign soil and starts yelling at the other countries over the Loudspeaker?
Is there a way the President can hold the other branches accountable?
So it was the Uni-Party approved USAID in collaboration with Fake News, FBI et al..who is/was funding the fake black lies matter/antifa riots all along….
Traitors working within the gov will probably try to push bird flu next and get the same results. We’ll see how it goes this time.
It won’t be the same. Too many of us see the game and will call their bluff.
That reminds me, when is the Trump admin going to push back against the bird flu hoax slaughter of millions of chickens for no reason other then to fuel another pandemic hoax and prevent the access to cheap and convenient whole food?
Funny how the avian flu only attacks chickens and human beings.
Wonder why that is?…
Obvs
similar, Money was processed to the NYC Hotel Illegals camp in defiance of PJT’s order to stop all payments
Here is the idiot who did it
Hopefully, she will be walking the streets soon.
Stacey Street Walker.
She better grab a corner fast, they will be in short supply.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 that’s funny right there
Looks like she already has.
Yep. She looks like a two-peso trick.
A clawback demand will be made today to recoup those funds
Elon is doing what our “elected” officials won’t.
That’s 59 million dollars for illegal aliens, and nothing for US homeless veterans.
https://nypost.com/2023/05/13/outrage-grows-over-vets-evicted-from-hotels-to-house-migrants/
I sent Money to an orphanage in NC that was severely damaged in the flood. ( for the precious children) I would like to see that smile wiped off her face…
Bye, bye Ms Street…guess your surname is rather prophetic.
You’re FIRED!!! and ought to have a lawsuit filed against her for breaking laws & enabling illegals!!!
Ugh.. the Karen Cut.
Is there a hairdressers guild of some sort that created this look?
FEMA: “Director, Office of Grants Administration
“As a member of FEMA’s Senior Executive Service, Stacey Street serves as the Director for the Office of Grant Administration within FEMA’s Grant Programs Directorate (GPD). She is accountable for the proper non-disaster grant award administration of over 4,000 annual grant awards and 10,000 open awards, *** spanning across 96 grant programs worth approximately $30 billion. *** In addition to this, she oversees non-disaster grants management activities ranging from OIG, GAO, A-133, and A-123 audits; environmental and historic preservation; data management; grants systems; and policy.”
Nice hair gutter there, can she pull it back any further?
She’s a poster child for AWFLs.
Rapid Response 47
@RapidResponse47
The “Consumer Financial Protection Bureau” (the brainchild of Elizabeth Warren) has long functioned as another woke, weaponized arm of the bureaucracy that leverages its power against certain industries and individuals disfavored by so-called “elites.”
Cont reading thread…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1889001002201743481.html
It was created to control and hassle smaller financial institutions to pave the way for consolidation of the industry in favor of the mega-companies that sponsor the deep state.
Just logged in to say
😀😄😆😅😂😂💀💀
Meanwhile, anothet Obama appointed district judge readies yet another midnight TRO.
Hello, SG and AG Bondi? Got SCOTUS?
The world is waiting.
Pam had a hair appt??? Or nails??? Or a teeth whitening session?
Just stop.
I support the billionaires on this one, even though I am not one of them!!! Drain that swamp.
What an amazing time to be alive!!
That’s the one song that made the Disco Decade tolerable.
Budget Boss Russ Vought Tells all CFPB Staff to
“Stop spending tax monies scheming, plotting, and destroying.”
It’s not even taxes they’re spending, it’s money they took from businesses under the color of law in the form of “fines”.
U.S. $1.8 Trillion Deficit Grows, But DOGE Faces Relentless Oppositionhttps://citizenwatchreport.com/u-s-1-8-trillion-deficit-grows-but-doge-faces-relentless-opposition/
Democrats and RINOs are addicted to OPM, “Other People’s Money.”
Hysterical.
💀🙏💀
Sadly, I’m not feeling their grifting pain.
Stop work? Were they doing any? Besides robbing the taxpayer.
“This attack on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is LEGAL, CONSTITUTIONAL, to prevent a blatant power grab by SMARMY POLITICIANS who want to rig the system even further in their favor to Democrats”.
Interesting Factoid:
Not only was the CFPB Lieawatha’s brainchild, she wanted to be the director of the slush fund.
Sing with DOGE to the tune of Y.M.C.A.
It’s fun to close the C.F.P.B.
It’s fun to close the C.F.P.B.
Can’t wait until Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are audited. Maxine Waters has the oversight.
Poking around in Pocahontas’ teepee for ill-gotten wampum.
Bad medicine coming for chief cheekbones.
If you committed a crime by violating our immigration laws you must be able to obtain credit ~ CFPB
“but it does prohibit lenders from using immigration status to discriminate against an immigrant consumer or small business owner based on national origin, race, or other protected characteristics. The statement seeks to remind lenders that they cannot use a consumer’s or entrepreneur’s immigration status to justify unlawful discrimination.”
They talk about “unlawful discrimination” against those broke the law in the first place. Make it make sense. I Wonder how many lenders they have fined for not allowing Illegal invaders to obtain credit?
The lame stream media continues to attribute Project 2025 to Vought when it is a project from Heritage. Vought was with the Center for Renewing America. Bugs me.
Have to sully Trump every chance they get. Truth went out the window long ago.
The only president elected to increase the unemployment rate, by firing thousands of government union members.
You’re fired, you’re fired too, and the rest of you are… You guessed it, fired, fired, fired.
Almost like an opra show but instead of everyone getting car, yep!
You’re all fired!
LoL!🤣🤣🤣
Won’t be long before a lot of the unemployed can get those jobs. Who knows. Might be a white man or many more as the playing field is getting leveled.
I keep hearing from the wacko left that if all these people are deported there won’t be anyone to pick our crops, do our yard work and clean our bathrooms in hotels. It seems to that there will be a plethoras of people who used to work in DC that will need a job. Like Seinfeld said in one episode “see everything always works out George”!
They can all consume feces and expire…
Can the CFPB fines be redirected to right wing causes and oversight instead? I mean if it can be repurposed for 3 years then go ahead and do it; then close it on year 4.
I’m sure there are groups who’d like to help with homeschooling or what not if they have enough funding? Civics-classes NGOs anyone? Teach kids how to think, problem-solve, and code MGOs?
Watch groups for far-left racism, hatred, and anti-Americanism? Fact checkers of CNN (oh, they’d be busy)!
This is not the way. MAGA aren’t grifters!
No incentified government stealing – like traffic tickets and civil forfeiture. The receipients of ill-gotten goods cannot be the excuse for the grifters to grift. The costs of that grift trickle down to the rest of us. The grift is not free money,
This would be a beautiful thing
Find the illegals who are collecting SS, Medicare and Medicaid.
” SHOW ME Your SSN & EIN ”
” NOW Your Tax Return for 2024 “
Funny how we have to keep receipts for our taxes in case we get audited, yet the government institutions don’t want us to see their receipts.
Well they won’t need to be armed! Biden took care of that! He armed the 87K new IRS agents and the people at the Treasury.
CFPB is protecting American consumers from Banks charging up to 35% interest rates on credit card purchases so that illegal aliens can receive bank loans and credit lines and live the American dream. That makes sense!
They get a loan, when the collection notices come in the run home, go around the flag pole and come back.
What? No. And the gov can charge ridiculous internet in student loans with a capitalized interest as bad as any credit card? Predatory means… audit the fed too!
No wonder the Dem0crat National Cartel is going ape bleep over E.Musk….his DOGE team is methodically excising their beating heart in DC, one valve and one artery at a time, and in record time.
He’s got people in 12 agencies.
In the big ones which is good. What is not so great is that there are over 400 federal agencies now.
Over 400.
I think it was on this site that I read, somebody referred to the 3 guys helping Musk as the “Musketeers”
Just wait for another lawfare suit and injunction from another shopped ‘rat judge.
time we put those rats in cages
Biden had almost a 100 of them confirmed just in December with HIS senate . When he was the majority leader. They knew they were gonna lose and were prepping the whole last month for obstruction.
Democrats are all going on the record demanding that Trump not reduce federal spending.
This is perfect. Keep digging, Democrats!
I know jk, who in their right mind doesn’t want this to happen. Oh that’s right, the ones who are getting the kickbacks! The people screaming the loudest are the ones, the others standing there with a stupid look on their face just nodding their heads, they have no idea what they’re nodding for.
I see the coming problem for the Democrats is if any of their lawfare goes to court there will be discovery, right? Hence, DOGE gets to say why they are there (corruption on paper) and the Democrats have nothing to say but “well, yeah.” Don’t see them pursuing them into court.
And Russ was such a mild mannered little boy.
” VERY measured “
Burn it down
Any way to get DOGE to look at the New Market Tax Credit Program over at the Treasury Community Development Financial Institution division?
There is some whamdinger democrat grifting over there. I am talking billions.
Copy @elonmusk on X with your question.
Thanks. I dont have a twitter account. I will need to get one.
“Employees should not come into the office,” acting CFPB Director Russell Vought said in an email to all staff. “Please do not perform any work tasks.”
Translation: Any action that any of them now take is expressly not protected from suit since it will be by definition outside the scope of their employment.
Attorney Bill Shipley – @ShipwreckedCrew- on Twitter today re USAID:
“The recipients and the amounts being paid monthly are the next big scandal of the Admin. State to be exposed.”
They can’t say they were not warned. Hilary told them and she knew.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GjbkuaJW8AA0DlH?format=jpg&name=small
It’s likely that “the activist group Indivisible” is being funded via CFPB extortion of banks.
Former career DOJ prosecuting attorney Bill Shipley:
@shipwreckedcrew
“Re the Rhode Island Judge’s order on spending — the Trump Admin should push him into an evidentiary hearing on contempt.
“Resume spending to comply with the Order, but do so at reduced levels.
“Then have an evidentiary battle over what spending level is “mandated” by Congressional edict on a line-by-line basis with the burden on the states to prove the spending level is not what is required by statute.
“Drag it out. Make it hurt.
“The Rhode Island judge claims he’s entitled to determine the appropriate level of spending — fine, let’s go program by program, state by state, and create a record for appeal.
“Govt lawyers get paid the same either way.”
These “judges” must be geniuses and spend years in college earning bachelor degrees with multiple majors and multiple masters in areas such as business administration and information technology, etc. beside earning their jd.
They seem to have vast knowledge and work experience in multiple areas on how different organizations operate and can tell those orgs they are doing it wrong and here how you must do it.
Just kidding.
They can never just read the law and make a ruling based on the law. They make stuff up according to “feelz” . They tell people how to run their organizations without knowledge or experience. They can tell you, for instance, that there is no voter fraud without looking at anything.
Musk and Vought must make a priority of publicly revealing all the details of CFPB malfeasance: nature of fines charged (for unlawful offenses?); amounts collected; list of recipients of monies collected; list of how those recipients disbursed the funds.
Without all the details, the public will be easily convinced by the Democrats and Faucahontas that CFPB is a bona fide law-enforcement agency doing good work. The fraud has to be revealed in such a way that it cannot be papered over with good intentions.
Alright chill’en of CFPB: PENCILS DOWN clowns!!
And take this & stuff it into your “Piece” of Pipe, Liawatha!!
Oh, how I just LOVE playing Doge Ball boys & girls!!
Next coming to a DC government agency near you!!
DOGE it!
“The Uniparty billionaire power grab for the last 16 years was different! We were defending Democracy!” Calm down, Liz, calm down.
Every time I look at that cute frisky puppy, it brings absolute joy to my heart.
Whoever the creator was, has a devilishly brilliant sense of humor.
It’s laughably the g.o.a.t..
Where the f can I buy the t shirt. I need 50 ASAP.
They were already not working!
Queue the next Obama-Biden judge to step in a force them to work again.