{"id":137337,"date":"2025-02-11T07:20:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T05:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/us-consumer-finance-watchdog-chief-tells-all-staff-to-cease-work\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T07:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T05:20:31","slug":"us-consumer-finance-watchdog-chief-tells-all-staff-to-cease-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/us-consumer-finance-watchdog-chief-tells-all-staff-to-cease-work\/","title":{"rendered":"US consumer finance watchdog chief tells all staff to cease work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137337\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>President Donald Trump&#8217;s newly installed chief of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau told all of the agency&#8217;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&#8217;s Washington headquarters, idling a federal agency of nearly 2,000 workers tasked with enforcing consumer financial laws.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Employees should not come into the office,&#8221; acting CFPB Director Russell Vought said in an email to all staff. &#8221;Please do not perform any work tasks.&#8221; 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&#8217;s abolition. Efforts by President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration to neutralize the agency escalated over the weekend as billionaire Elon Musk&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency gained full access to CFPB computer systems. Vought ordered a stop to all oversight of consumer financial companies.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has vowed to destroy the CFPB and on Friday posted &#8221;CFPB RIP&#8221; on his social media platform X. The agency would be responsible for regulating his planned business venture with payments giant Visa. The White House said in a statement the CFPB has long functioned as another &#8221;woke, weaponized arm of the bureaucracy that leverages its power against certain industries and individuals disfavored by so-called elites.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Confrontations with staff, Democratic lawmakers and progressive organizations were set to continue on Monday, with a rally planned for outside the agency&#8217;s headquarters near the White House. Meanwhile, in a federal lawsuit filed Sunday, the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents CFPB staff, argued that Vought&#8217;s actions violated the Constitution by undercutting Congress&#8217; power to set and fund the agency&#8217;s mission.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/acting-cfpb-chief-tells-all-staff-cease-any-work-tasks-2025-02-10\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/us-consumer-finance-watchdog-chief-tells-all-staff-to-cease-work\/\">US consumer finance watchdog chief tells all staff to cease work<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,17897,17898],"class_list":["post-137337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-finance-watchdog","tag-us-consumer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}