Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency raced to gut the nation’s top consumer financial watchdog in a frenzied, 36-hour scramble this week, sending out pink slips to thousands of federal employees while lambasting “incompetent” agency staffers, according to court filings from affected employees released Friday.
The filings provide an extraordinary glimpse into the efforts to upend the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency created in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis that has become a prime target of Trump supporters.
