# CFPB Issues Support Contract Stop-Work Orders

An Office of Inspector General review found that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s early-2025 stop-work orders and related contract actions affected almost all of its approximately 525 support contracts. The bureau ultimately terminated 79 contracts and later reinstated 16; the review also found substantial disruption to supervision and enforcement work, with operational effects that persisted beyond workforce actions paused by court orders. For firms supporting CFPB, the findings underscore the need to confirm contract status and account for continuity risks when agency work is suspended or changed.

- Contractors should verify whether their CFPB support work was terminated, reinstated, or otherwise affected by the early-2025 actions, and retain clear records of work performed and direction received.
- The review links contract actions to disruption of bureau operations, including supervision and enforcement; firms supporting those functions may need to factor that disruption into delivery and staffing plans.
- The signals describe retrospective findings, not a new solicitation, award, or announced procurement timeline.

**Jurisdictions:** federal
**Published:** October 21, 2026

### Government Entities
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
- Office of Inspector General for the Federal Reserve Board and CFPB (OIG)
- Federal Reserve Board

### Key Quotes
> Over the course of one week in February the acting directors issued three progressively more restrictive stop work orders to employees
> — Terese Blanchard, OIG Manager

### Sources
- [
        Early in the Trump administration, agencies issued stop-work orders to their contractors. CFPB issued them to its own staff - Federal News Network](https://federalnewsnetwork.com/podcast/federal-drive-with-terry-gerton-podcast/early-in-the-trump-administration-agencies-issued-stop-work-orders-to-their-contractors-cfpb-issued-them-to-its-own-staff) - Federal News Network
- [
        Early in Trump’s second term, CFPB issued stop-work orders to its own staff - Federal News Network](https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2026/10/early-in-trumps-second-term-cfpb-issued-stop-work-orders-to-its-own-staff) - Federal News Network