An email sent to staff said, "Employees and contractors are to work remotely unless instructed otherwise from our Acting Director or his designee."

President Trump’s newly installed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau chief Russell Vought is closing the bureau’s headquarters and has ordered staff to halt all of their supervisory efforts, ramping up the administration’s attempt to revoke the financial regulator’s authority.

Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's newly installed head of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, instructed staff on Saturday evening to suspend all activities including the supervision of companies overseen by the agency,

CFPB employees were told Sunday to work remotely because their Washington, D.C., headquarters would be closed through Feb. 14, according to a memo.

Vought said Saturday he notified the Federal Reserve the CFPB will not receive its next draw of federal funding—claiming it’s “not ‘reasonably necessary’ to carry out [the agency’s] duties”—amid multiple reports indicating Vought emailed agency staff Saturday to say they should halt all of their work.