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.

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.

Elon Musk appeared unfazed after President Donald Trump publicly called on the DOGE director to “GET MORE AGGRESSIVE” with his work in a series of Saturday morning posts on Truth Social. The president appeared to give Musk a performance evaluation as he declared in an all-caps message: “ELON IS DOING A GREAT JOB,