Recently deleted content from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s website is prompting some employees to ask: Is this another sign of the end?
The CFPB removed around 1,700 website pages spanning press releases, consumer advisories, speeches, testimony and op-eds dating before February 2025 — when Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought took over the bureau — from its website on Tuesday.
“I think that it’s in service of this message they’re trying to send: ‘Oh no, we’re not shutting the agency down, we’re just paring it down,’” said a CFPB employee who works on the website. “But the question is, is that just another step in them trying to shut it down entirely? Which I think it is.”