Elon’s team has been wiping out agencies across the federal government since Trump’s inauguration, with D.O.G.E workers firing thousands of employees.

Senior officials have been blindsided by DOGE’s actions at Treasury and USAID. But the president’s support of the group means other advisers have limited options.

From the moment the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened its doors in the summer of 2011, powerful critics have wanted to rein it in — and the regulator was one of the very first targets of Elon Musk’s scorched-earth overhaul of the US government.