WASHINGTON–Fired employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) are being told to come to its Washington headquarters to collect their personal belongings.

That’s a “sign that the agency is confident a federal appeals court will allow the gutting of its workforce,” according to Bloomberg Law.

CFPB employees who used to work out of the agency’s offices at 1700 G Street NW in Washington began receiving an email from the agency’s facilities unit May 22 with the instructions, Bloomberg Law reported, stating it had obtained a copy of the email that directed employees to a digital sign-up sheet. 

Sign-Up Times

That sign-up sheet gave employees the option to collect their belongings on June 3, 4, 5, or 11 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., the report stated. 

Bloomberg Law further noted that the materials it reviewed showed a maximum of 100 CFPB employees are allowed to collect their belongings on any of the four days, according to the sign-up sheet.

The CFPB initially told employees that any personal items left in the headquarters building after June 11 would be considered abandoned and would be “disposed of.”

As the CU Daily reported earlier, Acting CFPB Director Russell Vought locked agency staff out of the headquarters building in early February and has blocked the vast majority of the workers from entering since as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to largely dismantle the consumer protection agency. 

‘Confident’ in Ruling

“That Vought is telling CFPB employees to come collect their personal belongings is a sign that he’s confident the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will overturn a lower court ruling that blocked an attempt to fire nearly 1,500 members of the approximately 1,700 people who worked at the CFPB at the beginning of 2025, according to multiple sources who requested anonymity to avoid retaliation,” Bloomberg Law reported.

A three-judge D.C. Circuit panel heard oral arguments in the case May 16, which is still pending.