Last week, more employees across the federal government received termination notices

as the Trump administration forged the head with its plan to drastically reduce the federal

workforce.

One agency hit hard by layoffs was the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Taylor Sunny was a compliance examiner at CFPB based in Houston, Texas.

My job was basically traveling across America physically to financial institutions

and really examining making sure that they're treating people fairly.

He'd been working at the CFPB for 11 months, just one month shy of the end of his probationary

period, when he found out he'd lost his job.

Everyone pretty much got fired via a mail merge form that was blasted out to everyone.

That, in my opinion, wasn't very accurate.

It sort of touched on points of merit.

However, you know, all of us have gotten very high regards in performance reviews,

and we're all very hardworking people.

Sunny and his colleagues are weighing. What happens next? There could be opportunities for

recourse, like filing an appeal if they believe they were fired for partisan political reasons.

But for now, Sunny is processing the loss of his job and what mass layoffs could mean for the future of the

CFPB.

I was incredibly happy to be able to protect consumers on a federal level.

It truly is a nonpartisan mission, which is unfortunate that it's been so heavily politicized.

It's really something that the American people can't afford to lose.

Across federal agencies, many who still have jobs are worried about what'll happen next.

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