Sen. Tim KaineD-V., On Friday, he met with consumer protection employees (CFPB) who were discharged as a result Elon Musk ‘From the Government Efficiency Department (Doge) a federal decrease in labor.
CFPB has provided more than $ 21 billion for consumer relief, according to the latest agency data from December 3, 2024. Kaine accused the male of targeting CFPB with Doge Cuts for his own profit.
“The fact that Trump’s administration targeted on these guys at the front end of the Motor Pile Massacre … Why do you go after these advocates of consumer protection? It smells really bad. I think it seems that this has happened because Musk has a certain interest in pulling out these regulators that protect everyday people.”
In an interview with Fox News Digital after his meeting with former CFPB employees, Kaine said that CFPB saved “tens of thousands of Virginians” from dishonest or abused financial practices.
Senator Tim Kaine met on Friday with CFPB employees who were released as a result of a decrease in Elon Musk’s federal workforce. Kaine accused the male of targeting CFPB of his own gain. (Getty/Reuters)
“These people work great,” Kaine said. “This is an agency that has returned $ 21 billion to the consumers who have been ripped off. I know Virginia statistics. It’s tens of thousands of Virginians who got relief because of the work these people did.”
Virginia has the second highest number of federal civilian employees in the United States, according to data from the Staff Management Office (OPM). Kaine was a vocal opponent of Doge’s federal decrease in labor, holding meetings of the City Hall to get rid of the concerns of his voters.
Kaine said that Musk and Doge “hurt people to help” promote a government that gives a “huge gift to Elon male and people like him.”
“He simply throws himself too much musk who is trying to get a contract here with the State Ministry, trying to get the contract at the DOD, and maybe direct him to his own companies or companies he is close to. When you let an unseen guy just come with a chainsaw and approached them, and they could let go, which should not be released. It hurts people … why?
Elon Musk, holds a chainsaw during a performance at CPAC, February 20, 2025 at the National port, Maryland. (Getty)
As for the current federal labor crack, Kaine said, “They don’t use Hatchet. They use a chainsaw.” Kaine said Trump relies on the executive actions to remove government agencies because even congress Republicans would not “go with those things he does.”
“He is not convinced that even the Republican majority could go together with these things. He will do everything he can, because even these Republican majority that look completely softened and submissive, without the backbone and without the willingness to practice the vocal cord they have, does not think he will go with those things he does,” Kaine said.
The White House did not respond to the Fox News Digital request to comment on the deadline of this article.
Headquarters of the Consumer Protection Office in Washington, DC, February 10, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
Joe Valent, a former CFPB worker who met with Kaine on Friday, told Fox News Digital that he was locked up from the CFPB Office last month, received a stop order and then a break from the breakup without a shipment.
Valenta said that consumer financing laws were not necessarily implemented by stopping CFPB operations.
“The Federal Government gives up its role in the protection of working people from financial damage and affects low-income ingredients, such as the people I have served in CFPB. This affects the members of the service, affects the veterans, the elderly. Civic employees are one of the laws that would be on what is intended for the police officer. is valentine.
CPFB is one of several agencies that has influenced the doge federal decrease in labor. Elon musk Posted on X February 7, “CFPB RIP”, followed by emoji.
President Donald Trump She marked a decrease in CFPB, saying at the top of the priority of the Institute for future investments on February 19 that his administration “practically extinguished” CFPB.
“We practically exclude CFPB out of control, following the bureaucrats from the radical left from the building and locked the door behind them. What they did was so awful. Where they spent money was so awful,” Trump said.
President Donald Trump signs a number of executive orders at the oval office at the White House on February 10, 2025. (Andrew Hardik/Getty Images)
On February 10, Trump confirmed to reporters at an oval office and the agency was “completely eliminated”. Trump said that CFPB is a “waste” used “to destroy some very good people” and that it is “very important to get rid of”.
An appeal submitted last month by the National Federation of Treasury Employee (NTEU) accuses Russell vouightCFPB duties acting director of the Office for Management and Budget (OMB), “Preparation for the implementation of another mass shooting, this time of over 95% of the employees of the bureau”.
Russell Vought has laid the oath during hearing to confirm the Banking Committee on 22 January 2025. In Washington, DC (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
Vought ordered CFPB employees to stop the agencies, unless otherwise approved, seventy-three newlywed “test workers” and 70 to 100 “employees” were dismissed, while about 200 contracts were canceled, according to a lawsuit and media reports.
Three CFPB leaders were put on administrative leave in early February, Fox News Digital confirmed. The agency spokesman said that CFPB’s Chief Director, Mark Paoletta, housed Lorelei Salas, Director of CFPB Surveillance, and Eric Halperin, Head of Implementation Agency, and Zixta Martinez, Deputy Director of the Agency, on administrative leave.
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There were protests outside the CFPB headquarters Washington from shooting, where there were Sen. Elizabeth WarrenD-Mass, who initially proposed an agency.
CFPB is an independent government agency intended to protect consumers from unjust financial practices in the private sector. He created it President Barack ObamaAdministration of 2010 after a great recession in 2008.
Emma Colton Emma Colton contributed to Fox News Digital.
