Laura Barron-Lopez:
That’s right.
Russ Vought, who is the head of the budget office for the Trump administration, but also the acting director of the CFPB, that consumer watchdog group, he ordered that all CFPB staff stop working, don’t come into the office. This is something that Project 2025 wanted to do. They wanted to eliminate the entire agency.
But like the USAID, Agency for International Development, it takes an act of Congress if you’re going to dismantle any of these agencies or even try to transfer their functions. And so, again, it’s a question of whether or not Congress is going to step in here. It’s a playbook similar to what they did with USAID.
And we did see today that, despite, again, a judge’s order saying that USAID workers had to be allowed to return to work and to reinstate their functions and the work of the agency, ultimately, those workers were barred from entering their office today, Amna.
