Grade 2 of 5: Major Abuse of Power
DOGE Shuts Down Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: 'CFPB RIP'
DOGE operationally shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — a Congressionally-created agency protecting 330 million Americans from financial fraud — by ordering staff to cease all work, deleting social media accounts, and planning to fire nearly all 1,700 employees. Federal courts intervened but the agency remains gutted.