Before he helped fire most Consumer Financial Protection Bureau staffers, DOGE’s Gavin Kliger was warned about his investments and advised to not take any actions that could benefit him personally, according to a person familiar with the situation.

Last month, a Department of Government Efficiency aide at the nation’s consumer watchdog agency was told by ethics attorneys that he held stock in companies that employees are forbidden from owning — and was advised not to participate in any actions that could benefit him personally, according to a person familiar with the warning.

But days later, court records show, Gavin Kliger, a 25-year-old software engineer who has been detailed to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since early March, went ahead and participated in mass layoffs at the agency anyway, including the firings of the ethics lawyers who had warned him.

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  • Cheradenine@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Who supports this? Is it people who still believe in trickle down? People who think insider trading is robust capitalism? ‘I paid off my student loans, everyone else should’?

    Bro, your taxes are not going down no matter what bullshit savings number elon makes up. Social services get cut. Cost of living increases, salaries do not keep up. The divide gets wider.