CFPB Wanted Employees to Work Despite Vought’s Order, Tip Line

A top Consumer Financial Protection Bureau official expressed surprise that employees had stopped performing mandatory duties despite a stop-work order and a tip line the agency set up to report on workers doing their jobs.

The Sunday email from CFPB Chief Operating Officer Adam Martinez, obtained by Bloomberg Law, came a day before the CFPB and the National Treasury Employees Union are set to appear before Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the US District Court for the District of Columbia for a hearing over allegations the Trump administration improperly attempted to shut the agency down.

“It has come to my ...