New details about the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau became public on Thursday when an agreement between DOGE and the CFPB was filed in court. The agreement, which went to effect in January and will run until July 4, 2026, reveals that the CFPB is on the hook for all travel or training expenses that DOGE employees incur for work they do related to the agency. It also mandates that the CFPB must notify DOGE of any media inquiries related to its work.
The agreement was entered into court Thursday as part of a lawsuit against DOGE by the government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. It lays out the scope of DOGE's work within the agency, including that DOGE reps are meant to "champion the use of modern technology development and management approaches" and "promote inter-operability between agency networks and systems."
