CFPB Union Deletes its Bizarre Press Release as DOGE Audit Commences

Update 2 (Feb 8): The CFPB has effectively been closed by its new Acting Director.

Update 1: Segments of the CFPB’s main website and X account have now been taken offline as well.

If you’ve ever wondered what might be in store when facing the CFPB, a now deleted press release issued by its union leadership on Friday revealed a whole new side of the financial regulator.

The announcement, titled CFPB Union NTEU 335 spies dodgy DOGE bros, launched insults against three younger members of the DOGE team conducting an agency audit as well as Elon Musk. In addition to calling Musk a “confidant” of the late Jeffrey Epstein, it made fun of the DOGE auditors backgrounds’, personal interests, and even in one case an auditor’s father.

“Kliger’s daddy works at Experian which is the same company CFPB sued in January for covering up errors on credit reports with sham investigations,” it said. “While alleged coder Kliger made between zero to three git commits in the last year, workers at the CFPB returned $1.3 billion to scammed Americans in that time.”

The press release was applauded by federal employees on Reddit who especially liked the line of it that said “CFPB Union members welcome our newest colleagues and look forward to the smell of Axe Body Spray in our elevators.”

So many people were accessing the union’s statement on their website on Friday afternoon that the site kept going offline. The press release was deleted by the evening. Around the same time Musk took to X to hint at what might happen during the audit.

Among government labor unions, the CFPB’s already stood apart. It was in the news last year for staging a protest against the agency’s Director, Rohit Chopra, over allegations of pay discrimination. Although that situation resulted in a resolution, Chopra was removed from the agency only just a week ago. Since Congress has yet to confirm a new Director of the CFPB, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been serving as its Acting Director. Bessent has ordered operations of the CFPB to be frozen in the interim.

Update: Shortly after this story went live, the CFPB’s account on X was deleted and components of the CFPB’s main website were taken offline. Additionally, Russell Vought was made new Acting Director of the CFPB.

The full deleted CFPB Union press release can be viewed below: