Union members set up a table in the lobby, scoured news reports for names of anyone connected to Musk’s White House office, the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, and looked for any sign of them within the CFPB’s employee directory. On Feb. 7, Farman’s union issued a press release noting that it had discovered three “dodgy DOGE bros” working at the CFPB. They were Chris Young (formerly of Musk’s political action committee), Nikhil Rajpal (formerly of X and a college libertarian group) and Gavin Kliger (who’d worked with Musk on the attempted closure of USAID). The DOGE bros had been given access to the CFPB’s human resources, finance and procurement records, ostensibly to conduct an audit to identify services to cut. The same day, Musk seemed to confirm what Farman feared: The plan was to cut them all. “RIP CFPB,” Musk posted on X, adding the tombstone emoji.