‘Try to preserve your face’: Top CFPB officials have been rejected despite the media to stay, says the agency

First on the fox: Three leaders on Consumer Protection Office (CFPB) have been put on administrative leave on Tuesday, Fox News Digital confirmed.

MARK PAOLETTA CEO of Mark Paoletta Budget was located Lorelei Salas, Director of CFPB Supervision, and Eric Halperin, Head of the Agency Executive Implementation, and Zixta Martinez, Deputy Director of the Agency, on administrative leave, spokesman for CFPB. Tuesday.

Resignations come after the acting director of the Office for Management and Budget, Russ Vought, told CFPB employees Monday not to apply to work and “get approval in writing before performing any work tasks”. The scott scott scae secretary was briefly briefly the acting director of CFPB before Voughtt earlier in February, and also told employees to stop their work, “unless it explicitly approves the acting director or the law requires.”

CFPB spokesman told Fox News Digital that Halperin had defied Bezento’s command and resigned in response to the fact that he had been put on leave on Tuesday. Halperin was aware of his vacation via E -Stand and answered six minutes later that he resigned, New York Post reported earlier on Tuesday.

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“I write to let me know about my resignation … Since the building is closed, please give instructions on how to restore my equipment,” Halperin replied to the E -Stage. “Thank you for your service. It was an honor.”

Salas also “sent an explosion e -šte” in response to a notification that was also on leave, but officially did not resign, said Fox News Digital spokeswoman.

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The couple claims to reporters that they resigned, unlike putting leave, to “try and save their face,” Spox added.

When he approached the comment, Salas and Halperin spokesman told Fox Digital that Trump’s administration worked on “side” government employees.

“As we have seen many times before, Trump and Musk are trying to scare dedicated public officials who will not go with their plans for violating the law,” a spokesman said. “The CFPB staff is responsible to protect consumers, and this includes an adherence to long -standing books on books.”

Both Halperin and Salas have to do with the non-profit billionaire of George Soros, the Open Society Foundation, a statement for the public from 2021. Halperin served as Senior Advisor for the Open American Foundation Program, his biography in a press release of the CFPB, while Salas received a government scholarship from the Open Society Foundation.

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CFPB is an independent government agency in charge of consumer protection against dishonest financial practices in the private sector. It was created in 2010 under Obama’s administration after the financial collision in 2008.

The Government Efficiency Department, led Elon Musk, It investigates various federal agencies in February in search of finding and removing excessive spending of government, fraud and corruption.

On Friday, Musk posted a message on X, reading: “CFPB RIP”, a anticipation of construction that the Agency is the next investigation.

The protests have been organized outside the CFPB headquarters since then, including the Democratic Senator Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren, who originally proposed the agency, declaring on the streets: “We are here to return.”

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“This is like a bank robber trying to release police officers and turn off the alarm before she gets into the lobby,” Warren said the crowd on Monday.

“Financial police officers, CFPB, are there to make sure that Elon’s new project cannot deceive you or steal your sensitive personal information,” Warren said. “So Elon’s solution, get rid of the cop, kill CFPB.”