Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Fires Alexis Goldstein for Documenting DOGE Meeting

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has fired program manager Alexis Goldstein for documenting a meeting last year between the agency and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. That’s according to emails obtained by Bloomberg News. In a statement to Bloomberg, Goldstein said, ”CFPB is illegally retaliating against me for trying to do my job. I acted to protect the sensitive data of Americans and the trade secrets of some of the nation’s largest banks and financial institutions from being accessed by individuals from DOGE without CFPB credentials and required training.” Click here to see our past interviews with Alexis Goldstein.

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Trump Calls for 10 Percent Credit Card Interest Cap, After Killing Other Fee Limits

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Trump admin must fund CFPB, judge says

A view of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) headquarters building in Washington, DC, on Feb. 10, 2025.…
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Presidential Power Gets Tested Before Supreme Court After Long Conservative Project to Shrink Agencies

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Backing Trump Has Paid Off for Silicon Valley Billionaires Like Marc Andreessen

For more than a decade, Silicon Valley venture capitalists have poured enormous sums of money into newfangled technology companies seeking to disrupt, and even supplant, the traditional financial system and sidestep its burdensome regulations. At the same time, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has policed that effort, going after such businesses for deceiving…

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Backing Trump Has Paid Off for Silicon Valley Billionaires Like Marc Andreessen

Lawsuits have been dropped and settlements renegotiated in favor of companies as the administration guts the CFPB.

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The Rules of Investing Are Being Loosened. Could It Lead to the Next 1929?

A group of financiers is trying to convince the public to invest heavily in private equity and crypto — a risky gambit with some real 1920s vibes.

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Senate GOP Moves to Slash Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Budget by Half

The new attack on the CFPB comes after an earlier proposal to eliminate its entire budget violated reconciliation rules.

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Senate GOP Moves to Slash Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Budget by Half – The USA Potato

Before he helped fire most #ConsumerFinancialProtectionBureau staffers, #DOGE ’s #GavinKliger was warned about his investments and advised to not take any actions that could benefit him personally, according to a person familiar with the situation. www.propublica.org/article/cfpb...

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