Internal CFPB Emails Show Struggle to Get Employees Back to Work

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is scrambling to bring back staff to perform legally mandated tasks such as maintaining its consumer complaint database, according to emails submitted in litigation seeking to prevent the Trump administration from shuttering the agency.

The emails, filed late Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, show the CFPB began a push to bring back workers in its units handling consumer response, regulations, and other required activities just ahead of a March 3 hearing before Judge Amy Berman Jackson.

A series of emails from CFPB Chief Legal Officer Mark Paoletta and Chief ...