The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is laying off most of its remaining staff members.
A CFPB spokesperson said on April 17 that the agency is firing about 1,500 people across core divisions, including enforcement and supervision.
The reductions, if they become effective, would leave about 200 personnel in place.
Emails being sent to employees notified them that officials had “identified [their] position being eliminated and [their] employment is subject to termination in accordance with reduction-in-force (RIF) procedures,” according to lawyers representing the National Treasury Employees Union, whose members include CFPB workers.
Employees were told that their access to CFPB systems would end at 6 p.m. on Friday….