OMB head Russell Vought takes over as CFPB as acting head, DOGE team deletes X account

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: CNN

Russell Vought took over as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday night and officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency deleted the banking watchdog’s X account, a person familiar with the matter told CNN.

Vought’s new role, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, came a day after he was confirmed by the US Senate to lead the Office of Management and Budget.

The source told CNN that DOGE officials have been granted administrative access to CFPB systems, including content management system, back-end systems for the bureau’s website and the active directory of personnel.
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The CFPB’s homepage appears to have been deleted, displaying a “404 page not found” message at the top. However, other parts of the website appear to be functioning.

Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/08/business/cfpb-doge-vought-x/index.html

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So that's going to be killed too.

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Let's see the lawsuits fly! They can't do what they're doing. Where the fuck are the courts?

[sakabatou]

2. "We're gonna let banks screw people over." -Dump admin

[Trust_Reality]

3. Electing criminals is a really bad idea.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. This union post is a thing of beauty:

CFPB Union NTEU 335 spies dodgy DOGE bros

Washington, DC, February 7, 2025 — On the evening of February 6, three minions of professional Twitter poster and Jeffrey Epstein confidant Elon Musk appeared in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) internal staff directory.

The three underlings are Chris Young, a lobbyist for Big Pharma and past field organizer for former Gov. Bobby Jindal, and Elon fanboys Nikhil Rajpal and Gavin Kliger. Rajpal led a libertarian students group at public land-grant university UC Berkeley, and worked at auto-lender Tesla and wannabe-payment-processor Twitter. Kliger interned at Twitter, claims he owns a Tesla, and graduated from UC Berkeley in 2020. When he's not stealing Americans' private information with DOGE, Kliger enjoys writing lengthy essays defending rapists and retweeting white supremacists. Kliger's lawyer daddy works at Experian which is the same company CFPB sued in January for covering up errors on credit reports with sham investigations. While alleged coder Kliger made between zero to three git commits in the last year, workers at the CFPB returned $1.3 billion to scammed Americans in that time.

The unelected Musk recently announced plans for a new payments platform run jointly by Visa and “X” (formerly Twitter). Now, he’s moved his power grab to the CFPB, in a clear attempt to attack union workers and defang the only agency that checks the greed of payment providers, as well as auto lenders like Tesla.

CFPB Union members welcome our newest colleagues and look forward to the smell of Axe Body Spray in our elevators. While Acting Director Bessent allows Musk's operatives to bypass cybersecurity policies and wreak havoc with their amateur code skills inside CFPB's once-secure systems, CFPB Union members fight to protect our jobs so we can continue protecting Americans from scammers with conflicts of interest like Musk.

https://nteu335.org/2025/02/07/cfpb-union-nteu-335-spies-dodgy-doge-bros/

The massive conflicts of interest of Musk and his minions taking over the CFPB do deserve highlighting. Of course they want to kill it - it protects the public from them.

Via https://www.wonkette.com/p/this-press-release-from-the-cfpb

[yellow dahlia]

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