Washington – A union filed two demands against the interim director of the consumer financial protection office, Russell Vought, on Sunday after Voucht issued a series of directives who stopped much of the office activity.
The presentations limit a tumultuous weekend for the CFPB, since the functions of the office were ordered, and it was told to the employees that the headquarters of the headquarters in Washington will be closed this week, according to an email of NBC News obtained of two current employees.
A claim urged a judge to prevent the government efficiency department from accessing employee information, while the other asked a judge to block Voucht’s directives. Vought had ordered employees in an email on Saturday to “cease all supervision and examination activity”, “all the commitment of interested parties” ceases and stops all pending research, among other orders.
The demands were filed by the National Union of Treasury Employees, which represents employees in the CFPB.
The presentation that focused on the email of Vought argued that a judge should declare “that the directive of the defendant Vought to the employees of the CFPB to stop their supervision and application work is illegal” and prevent voucht from additional attempts to stop This work.
The other demand says that three employees affiliated with Doge were incorporated into the Office’s internal communications system, which NBC News also previously reported. The union said that Vought instructed CFPB employees to give the Dogle team “access to all CFPB systems not classified.”
The union argued that employees affiliated with Doge access to CFPB systems should not be allowed, including employee information.
“These employees face irreparable damage to their privacy interests if the information of their employees is accessed and/or disseminated by people associated with Doge,” says the demand. “Once an employee’s personnel is incorrectly disclosed, damage to the employee cannot be undone.”
The CFPB media team did not immediately respond to a comment request on Sunday night. One of Voucht’s directives to employees on Saturday included instructions to “not issue public communications of any kind.”
In addition to ordering the CFPB to stop much of his work, Vought also announced on Saturday in X that he had informed the Federal Reserve that “CFPB will not take its next raffle for not appropriate funds because it is not” reasonably necessary “to take outside its homework “.
CFPB employees and allies have delayed, with the CFPB Union, a chapter of the National Treasury Employees Union, announcing a protest outside the office headquarters on Monday.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Who helped lead the creation of the CFPB, criticized Voucht directives on Saturday as “giving great banks and giant corporations the green light to the families of scammers.”
As of December, the CFPB has ensured a total of more than $ 21 billion in several forms of consumer relief, according to the office.
