CFPB Terminates Employee Over DOGE Confrontation (CFPB)

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated program manager Alexis Goldstein after an acting deputy chief of staff confirmed she was fired for disrupting and documenting a 2025 meeting with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. Emails show Goldstein used her personal phone to photograph computers, confronted and yelled at CFPB IT director Tom McCarthy, and sought to verify credentials of unfamiliar visitors. The National Treasury Employees Union defended her as attempting to protect sensitive data, while a CFPB spokesperson said her actions were “inappropriate and unbecoming of a federal worker,” citing a December memo that had already proposed her removal. Goldstein, hired as a time-limited fellow, alleged retaliation for履职 and protecting trade secrets and sensitive data.