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A room with '5 men and a phone in it': Lawsuit filing details DOGE's plans to dismantle the CFPB

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Documents submitted as part of a lawsuit aimed at halting mass firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau .

They offer new step-by-step details of how insiders say the administration planned to decimate the regulator.

A federal judge temporarily blocked Trump officials from laying off CFPB staff two weeks ago in response to a legal challenge by a union representing federal employees.

The CFPB ’s student loan ombudsman post is also vacant, and its general ombudsman, who administration officials said would pick up the slack, has purportedly been ordered not to work.

203 Democratic members of Congress submitted an amicus brief in the case.