In February, a judge, before stopping the acquisition, was planning to set fire to an overwhelming majority of employees in the Consumer Financial Bureau, the administration of President Donald Trump and then to fulfill the legal obligations of the agency with a skeletal crew, a top CFPB officer testified on Monday.
During a long court hearing on Monday, CFPB’s Chief Operating Officer Adam Martinez gave a complete oath of chaos and confusion, which consumed the federal agency that was established to protect the public from unfair corporate practices as the government’s efficiency department and the Trump administration officials transferred it to disintegrate it.
His testimony provided a window, which is happening internal because Dogi Spearheads to kill Trump’s mandate to kill the federal government.
After CFPB Director Russell Wout work, the consumer Financial Bureau Rally supporters asked all the employees of the agency to stay away from the office and do not do any work outside the CFPB on Washington, DC, 10 February 2025.
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“The temporary preventive order absent, the majority of CFPB employees would have been abolished?” A lawyer representing the plaintiff asked Martinez.
“The majority, yes,” Martinez said, adding the remaining employees would have been fired at the later stages after the acquisition.
During his six-hour testimony, Martinez described the recent weeks and described the front and back played between CFPB director Ras Wout, Dogge, Office of Personnel Management and Management and Budget’s Office. The authorities touched the agency’s work between partially stopping and partially restoring as they hurried and then scrambled to keep the pieces back to comply with the law – to lose major data and services on the way – in some cases.
“I was processing a difficult time what was happening,” Martinez said, describing the early days of the acquisition of CFPB.
“So is it appropriate to say that it has been considered, but only later? It likes it, first shoot and ask questions later?” Judge Amy Burman Jackson asked, Martinez asked how the agency was forced to cancel several important contracts, but immediately after that, some ending was canceled.
The hearing also highlighted unique relations between Dogi’s representatives and career civil servants, with Martinez often called Dogi representatives to the newly established leaders of CFPB.
“I do not understand, until you were told that you are using him with leadership to mention Dogi, until Dogo was now your leadership,” asked Judge Jackson.
Martinez said, “He was nominated as senior advisors.”
“Senior CFPB leader,” Judge Jackson asked.
“Right,” Martinez said.
Martinez recalled everything from the first arrival of Dogi representatives in the CFPB office in the first week of February – and the acting director’s email ordered the CFPB employees to stop working – for immediate chaos, as well as his and other career authorities to find out whether to find out the important tasks to find out whether he has been established.
Martinez said at one point, “There were some high-primary issues that were destructive.”
Martinez said, “I was very worried about the consumer response center,” Martinez explained the potential backlash that if those systems were stopped. He said that he eventually coordinated a discussion between the head of the unit and the representatives of Dogi to help him understand why his program was so important. ,
On 2 March, after much confusion and frustration that CFPB was authorized to perform for what kind of work, Omb’s General Council Mark Paolalet, who is representing Vought, sent a letter to finally direct the CFPB employees, to fulfill the necessary duties.
But some units were asked to return to work, they continued to face the challenges – which included the loss of personnel and access to files of those which according to the accounts shown during the hearing.
Jackson admitted that the worker was facing extraordinary situation in CFPB, and he asked many questions to the witness.
“Would you say that sending an order that says ‘no work’ is specific?” Judge Jackson asked.
“No,” Martinez replied.
“Would you say that to cancel all contracts before analysis whether these duplicates are meaningful, not meaningful, is specific?” The judge also asked.
“No,” Martinez replied again.
“Would you say that it is specific to firing all the probationary employees and two-year-old employees from Gate-Go?” The judge asked.
“No,” Martinez replied.
“Would you say that trying to apply a brief without notice before implementing the new director is specific?” The judge continued.
“No,” Martinez replied again.
“And would you say that keeping the rest of the employees on administrative leave is specific with an order to do any work?” The judge asked.
“No,” Martinez replied.
Jackson is considering issuing an initial prohibitory orders to effectively prevent the breakdown of CFPB, which he stopped temporarily last week. During Monday’s hearing, Martinez was grown about the emails that he discussed on the outstanding ending despite the court order.
“You said that, in some ways, the delay was a blessing, because it gave you more time to find out how to meet this broader scale, isn’t it?” A lawyer asked.
“Yes,” Martinez said.
“And so you expressed things, really not going to be a CFPB, right?” The lawyer continued.
“When you are excluding many people and actions, yes,” Martinez said.
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