As with SNAP, Trump & Vought are manufacturing legal hurdles to bankrupt the CFPB. Stands in stark contrast to tariffs, deportations, and their other pet projects where they take maximalist legal positions and flout clear legal checks on executive power.

Of course CFPB union @nteu335.bsky.social is representing at #NoKings in DC.

Enroute to #NoKings in DC

Project 2025 architect Russell Vought said he’d prioritize consumer redress at the CFPB. In truth, he’s done the exact opposite.

The agency with "consumer protection" in its name just proposed a rule that it itself acknowledges could "impose costs on consumers and may provide some benefits to firms." Down is up. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Thanks climate change deniers www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The CFPB used to provide homebuyers a helpful tool for exploring current interest rates in their states. But under the "leadership" of Project 2025 architect Russ Vought, the agency hasn't updated the interest rate data since April... #StopVought www.consumerfinance.gov/owning-a-hom...

After yesterday's disgraceful court decision, we are hitting the streets tomorrow to #SaveCFPB and #StopVought. Join us! www.change.org/StopVought

The majority completely ignored the record & reality to reach its decision. As the dissent says, the majority “shield[s] [the admin's] illegality from any effective judicial oversight,” even though Trump officials “announced and celebrated their lawless decision to reporters and the broader public.”

Today’s ruling green lighting Trump's plan to dismantle the CFPB is a disgrace. But none of us can stand idly by while Trump destroys an agency created by Congress to protect working Americans from financial predators. CFPB workers aren't giving up the fight! Join us: www.change.org/StopVought

“Today’s decision is a deeply disturbing development in the ongoing campaign to shutter the CFPB...People need the CFPB to prevent financial companies from running roughshod over families, Veterans, and older adults.” #ProtectConsumers www.nclc.org/circuit-cour...

The DC Circuit Court's decision today allows the Trump administration to effectively kill the CFPB. This is a gigantic win for Wall Street’s biggest banks and the financial industry, but Main Street Americans are going to pay the price. Read our full statement: bettermarkets.org/newsroom/tod...

Deciding the claims were not reviewable requires ignoring the district court’s findings that Vought tried to shut down the CFPB and will try again if allowed. But as the dissent notes, the majority does not--and could not--conclude that the district court's factfinding was clearly erroneous.

Dissent: “The notion that courts are powerless to prevent the President from abolishing the agencies of the federal government that he was elected to lead cannot be reconciled with either the constitutional separation of powers or our nation’s commitment to a government of laws.”

Jeez... If your student's suicide doesn't persuade you, what will? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

We got rid of Elon Musk. Now it's time to get rid of Russell Vought, author of Project 2025 and Musk's successor at DOGE. Stand up to Trump and Vought. Sign the petition now: www.change.org/StopVought #StopVought

Republicans in Congress are killing an agency that they themselves rely on to help their constituents with financial problems.

“Vought should spend less time scheming how to stiff working people and bankrupt the CFPB with million-dollar security details and more time protecting everyday Americans from corporate fraudsters and scammers as Congress intended.” — @nteu335.bsky.social

Shot: In April, Trump's CFPB said it'd prioritize providing redress to service members. www.consumerfinancialserviceslawmonitor.com/2025/04/cfpb... Chaser: Trump's CFPB told Navy Federal Credit Union it no longer has to refund $80M to service members for illegal overdraft fees.

Shot: In April, Trump's CFPB said it would focus on getting money back directly to consumers. www.consumerfinancialserviceslawmonitor.com/2025/04/cfpb... Chaser: Trump's CFPB has reversed or jeopardized more than $360 million in compensation paid to consumers.

Vought is really quite hell bent on spending the CFPB's budget on anything but consumer protection. $5 million for a security detail, which no prior director has had, even though the CFPB's max budget was cut by nearly 50% and his other agency, OMB, just got a $100M budget increase.

The scale of the Trump administration's noncompliance with court proceedings is even worse than I thought.

Trump & his team have made the CFPB effectively inoperable for the past 6 months. He’d rather CFPB workers get paid to do nothing or to help corporate lawbreakers off the hook than to protect everyday Americans from scammers and fraudsters. #LetUsWork #SaveCFPB

The main factual difference: potential layoffs at the CFPB are even higher (~90% v 50%) but layoff notices hadn’t actually been sent at the time of the district court’s injunction. I’d guess the facts make little difference to SCOTUS but who’s to say when the majority refuses to explain itself.

According to this Supreme Court, President Biden's Department of Education was exceeding its power by trying to forgive peoples' student loans. President Trump, on the other hand, has the power to just completely dismantle the entire Education Department.

I fear the CFPB is very likely to suffer the same fate now… The DC Circuit has been sitting on the appeal of a PI prohibiting layoffs for a few months now. Many have thought the panel was waiting for SCOTUS to show its hand. Sadly SCOTUS continues to be pro-Trump and anti-democracy.

And through it all she has tried to "protect consumers, as her doctors would try to protect her, as @nteu335.bsky.social would try to protect the CFPB, as financial regulators would try to protect the markets, as the courts and the bureaucrats would try to protect the Constitution and the country."

The man who held a White House event to promote his meme coin is mad that a member of his cabinet is using her office for self-promotion. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...

The CFPB has stepped back from scrutinizing Buy Now, Pay Later even as more Americans are using the short-term loans to pay for daily expenses like groceries. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/b... www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/new... #SaveCFPB

Somehow an 80-year-old’s GI-Joe themed birthday party is even sadder than you’d imagine.

Definitely the first time I’ve been happy to hear an endless stream of honking on Georgia Ave

#NoKings protesters have Georgia Ave blanketed in Silver Spring MD

In his self-described effort to “traumatize” federal workers, Russ Vought effectively confiscated hundreds of CFPB workers personal belongings for the past 4 months. They’ll finally get their stuff back next week.

The Trump GOP is just like the old GOP: Campaign on and demagogue cultural issues in order to deliver financial windfalls for corporations and billionaires.

The DC Circuit will be hearing oral arguments in @nteunational.bsky.social's case to #SaveCFPB at 2 pm ET today. I'll try my best to post live updates. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UK-...

In 2023, the CFPB ordered Toyota's finance arm to pay $60 million, including $48 million in restitution, for allegedly tricking people into buying add-on products. The CFPB terminated the order, potentially letting Toyota over $40 million in restitution. news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/...

McKernan's nomination had been the administration's sole fig leaf to argue that they weren't trying to completely kill the CFPB. Now they don't even have that. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u... #SaveCFPB

Very glad to have @deepakguptalaw.bsky.social, one of the lawyers not shying away from challenging Trump's lawless actions, representing CFPB workers in our fight to #SaveCFPB.

If I were a corporate client, I'd be wary of sticking with any of these law firms. Will the firms advocate for you zealously when you need to challenge the federal government? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/b...

DOGE guy at the CFPB owned verboten stocks. He was explicitly warned by ethics lawyers that he wasn’t permitted to take any action that could benefit those companies — and him. He then helped fire workers anyway. Including the ethics lawyers who warned him. www.propublica.org/article/cfpb...

3 months ago I was ordered to stop doing any work tasks for the CFPB. I haven't been permitted to do our regular work since, all while DOGE has worked relentlessly to illegally fire 90% of staff. I spoke about what that means for consumers and democracy, and @nteu335.bsky.social's fight to #SaveCFPB

Trump, Musk, and Vought kicked a hornet's nest when they came for the CFPB and its workers. www.axios.com/2025/05/02/c...

Hard to see how supervision resources are "focused on pressing threats to consumers" when the 500+ workers in the supervision offices haven't been permitted to engage in any supervisory activity since February. www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/new...

I'll be at Freedom Plaza in DC at 5. See you there! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event... #SaveCFPB #LetUsWork #MayDay

NEW: A DOGE staffer who is helping carry out the downsizing of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau owns stock in companies that could benefit from the agency’s dismantling, ProPublica has found.

Vought and DOGE really don't know how to follow the law. An appeals judge appointed by Trump previously gave them the benefit of the doubt but yesterday voted to invalidate their efforts to fire nearly all CFPB workers. nteu335.org/2025/04/28/c...

DOGE’s singular focus at the CFPB has been eliminating the entire workforce. 12 weeks later they haven’t successfully fired or laid off a single worker. Imagine being that inefficient at your job.

As #MayDay approaches, CFPB Union has events nationwide you can join! 📣 TODAY 4/26 in Washington DC: We will rally outside CFPB HQ to continue to fight the illegal layoffs and the shutdown of CFPB. #LetUsWork to protect consumers against fraud & abuse from large banks and financial institutions

Thank you all for speaking out! Including my manager who highlighted the absurdity of Trump’s team making mortgage supervision the “highest priority” but then laying off our entire team w/o consulting a single person in our department. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69624...