{"id":2401023,"date":"2025-02-10T13:11:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T18:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-employee-union-sues-vought-over-cfpb-order-to-stop-working\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T13:14:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T18:14:51","slug":"federal-employee-union-sues-vought-over-cfpb-order-to-stop-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-employee-union-sues-vought-over-cfpb-order-to-stop-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal employee union sues Vought over CFPB order to stop working"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffederal-employee-union-sues-vought-over-cfpb-order-to-stop-working%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2401023&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u200bNational Treasury Employees Union has filed \u200ctwo lawsuits against Russell Vought,the Acting\u2063 Director of\u2062 the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau \u200c(CFPB),in response to his directive requiring employees\u200c to work remotely and halting\u200b various agency operations. The lawsuits challenge Vought&#8217;s\u2063 order, arguing that it unlawfully \u200brestricts the CFPB staff from performing their supervisory and enforcement\u200c duties, and also raise \u200dconcerns \u2064about potential violations of employee privacy due\u200d to \u200baccess granted to \u2062Department of Justice employees.<\/p>\n<p>Vought&#8217;s directive, which came as the Trump\u2063 management\u200c seeks to address perceived inefficiencies in\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-signs-executive-order-to-mandate-greening-of-federal-vehicles-buildings-by-2050\/\" title=\"Biden Signs Executive ... to Mandate Greening of Federal Vehicles, Buildings by 2050\">federal operations<\/a>, prevents CFPB employees from \u2062issuing new regulations \u2063or conducting investigations. The union claims that Vought&#8217;s refusal to provide funding to the agency is an attempt to undermine its mission to protect \u200dconsumers.Considering these developments, signs of meaningful changes at the CFPB are\u2064 emerging, \u2063such as \u200dissues with the CFPB&#8217;s website and\u200d questions surrounding the future of the agency under \u2062Vought&#8217;s leadership.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Federal employee union sues Vought over CFPB order to stop working<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1990047\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>A union representing thousands of federal employees filed two lawsuits against Office of Management and Budget Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3307527\/senate-confirms-russ-vought-omb-trump-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Russell Vought<\/a> for his shuttering of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/cfpb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Consumer Financial Protection Bureau<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Vought is the acting director of the CFPB. He ordered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/3315317\/vought-closing-cfpb-building-for-a-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">employees<\/a> to work remotely for this week on Saturday while the Trump administration&rsquo;s DOGE works on correcting inefficiencies across the federal government. <\/p>\n<p>One of the two suits filed aims to block DOGE employee access to the agency, while the other takes aim at Vought&rsquo;s order to halt work at the agency and refuse funding for the moment. Under his directive, employees are not allowed to issue new rules, end or begin investigations, or order public communications, among other things. The union filing the lawsuits is the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents employees in the CFPB.<\/p>\n<p>The DOGE lawsuit is aimed at its potential ability to access employees&rsquo; personal information.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;These <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">employees face irreparable harm<\/a> to their privacy interests if their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-mcdonalds-targeted-by-hackers-customer-data-breached-in-south-korea-and-taiwan\/\" title=\"Report: McDonald\u2019s Targeted By Hackers, Customer Data Breached In South Korea And Taiwan\">employee information<\/a> is improperly accessed and\/or disseminated by individuals associated with DOGE,&rdquo; the lawsuit says. &ldquo;Once an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-chick-fil-a-employee-uses-his-karate-training-to-fight-off-armed-robber\/\" title=\"Watch: Chick-fil-A ... Uses His Karate Training to Fight Off Armed Robber\">employee&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s personnel information is improperly disclosed, the harm to the employee cannot be undone.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Three DOGE employees were reportedly onboarded into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secret-service-law-enforcement-and-congress-clash-following-attempted-assassination-of-trump-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Secret Service, law enforcement, and Congress clash following attempted assassination of Trump - Washington Examiner\">bureau&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s communications system. The union said Vought told the bureau to give them &ldquo;access to all non-classified CFPB systems.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The other lawsuit tells a judge &ldquo;that Defendant Vought&rsquo;s directive to the CFPB&rsquo;s employees to stop their supervision and enforcement work is unlawful&rdquo; and that they should stop Vought from additional attempts to pause work. It also says that his refusal of funding &ldquo;reflects an unlawful attempt to thwart Congress&rsquo;s decision to create the CFPB to protect American consumers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In a potential sign of changes for the agency, the CFPB&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consumerfinance.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">homepage<\/a> on its website displays a &ldquo;404: Page not found&rdquo; error, and its X account no longer exists. Vought said on Saturday night that he informed the Federal Reserve that the &ldquo;CFPB will not be taking its next draw of unappropriated funding because it is not &lsquo;reasonably necessary&rsquo; to carry out its duties.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday morning, he reposted a <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/fairness-justice\/3306028\/trump-must-cancel-cfpb-censorship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">op-ed<\/a> titled, &ldquo;Trump must cancel CFPB censorship.&rdquo; Vought commented, &ldquo;The CFPB has been a woke &amp; weaponized agency against disfavored industries and individuals for a long time. This must end.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Senate confirmed Vought on Thursday night. He drew some controversy from Democrats for authoring a section of the Heritage Foundation&rsquo;s Project 2025. &ldquo;With their confirmation vote, Senate Republicans have not only endorsed Mr. Vought&mdash;they have also endorsed the dystopian and authoritarian Project 2025 agenda Mr. Vought will inflict on the American people as head of OMB,&rdquo; Oversight Committee ranking member Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) <a href=\"https:\/\/oversightdemocrats.house.gov\/news\/press-releases\/ranking-member-connollys-statement-project-2025-architect-russell-voughts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">said <\/a>in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has already removed former CFPB Director Rohit Chopra, who was slammed in the article for leading an agency that &ldquo;weaponized enforcement against specific industries and viewpoints.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The White House sent out a memo on Monday titled, &ldquo;CFPB Isn&rsquo;t a Wall Street Regulator, It&rsquo;s a Main Street Regulator.&rdquo; The memo says the CFPB is &ldquo;the&nbsp;brainchild&nbsp;of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)&rdquo; and &ldquo;has long functioned as another woke, weaponized arm of the bureaucracy that leverages its power against certain industries and individuals disfavored by so-called &lsquo;elites.&#8217;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It cites examples of the agency&rsquo;s alleged overreaches, including a warning from the Biden administration to banks in 2023 to avoid over-relying on a person&rsquo;s immigration status to determine whether to lend to them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Under the administration of President Donald J. Trump, the weaponization ends right now,&rdquo; the memo ends.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s unclear whether the Trump administration is shutting down the CFPB entirely or whether the bureau is just set for significant change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1990047\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1990047\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union sues Vought over CFPB work stoppage order<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2401024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/russ-vought-omb-1024x591.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[50142,50141,36475,39222,15237],"class_list":["post-2401023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cfpb","tag-federal-employee","tag-labor-relations","tag-union-lawsuit","tag-vought"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/russ-vought-omb-1024x591.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2401023"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2401027,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401023\/revisions\/2401027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2401024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2401023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2401023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2401023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}