DAVID MUIR: There's another developing headline involving President Trump at this hour. A judge extending his block on the president's effort to get millions of federal workers to resign, to take a buyout or risk getting fired. Tonight, the vice president and Elon Musk are now openly questioning the authority of some of these judges. And now, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been halted. Workers told to stay home. Protests outside today. The Bureau, set up to protect Americans from banks becoming too big to fail, and to protect against risky mortgages, and other financial products after the banking collapse and Great Recession. So, is the Bureau's work protecting consumers over? Here's our Senior Political Correspondent Rachel Scott tonight.
RACHEL SCOTT: Tonight in Washington, frustrated workers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau demanding to be let in to do their jobs.
WORKERS: Let us work!
SCOTT: After Elon Musk essentially shut down the agency, posting on X, "CFPB RIP." The Bureau, the government's consumer watchdog, created after the 2008 financial crisis and housing crash to protect American families from unfair and deceptive practices on everything from mortgages to credit cards to bank fees and student loans. But this morning, employees got an email from White House Budget Director Russell Vought saying they should not come into the office, and instructing them: “please do not perform work tasks.”
CFPB WORKER: You show up to work on Monday morning excited to get started on the week. I had an agenda of things I was ready to do to fight for American consumers, and to be told that I'm not supposed to do that is heartbreaking.
