A Consumer Financial Protection Bureau official charged with laying off the agency’s staff said the Trump administration pushed to fully shutter the watchdog as recently as last week, even as a court probes whether it can.
The official, testifying under the pseudonym Alex Doe at a hearing Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, said the CFPB’s reduction-in-force team held meetings with the Office of Personnel Management as late as March 6 to discuss the process for eliminating the agency. Doe was the leader of the CFPB RIF team.
CFPB Chief Legal Officer Mark Paoletta has ...