The Government Accountability Office has agreed to investigate recent CFPB moves to fire more than 1,400 employees and the impact it and other agency actions have had on the bureau’s ability to operate.

“GAO accepts your request as work that is within the scope of its authority,” A. Nicole Clowers, GAO’s Managing Director, Congressional Relations, wrote in response to a letter from Senate Banking Committee ranking Democrat Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. and Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J. Clowers said the watchdog agency’s probe will include efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

The senators had said they requested that the GAO probe the “Trump Administration’s actions to dismantle the agency, including attempted firings, stop-work orders, and recent announcements of dropped lawsuits [that were filed] to hold big corporations responsible for ripping off Americans.”

They added that “the GAO will investigate whether the CFPB is able to fulfill its congressionally mandated functions.”

The CFPB has attempted to fire more than 1,400 employees, leaving 200 employees at the bureau. That Reduction in Force has been blocked by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

In a separate letter, Warren, Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and other Democratic Senators have sent Acting CFPB Director Russell Vought a letter asking him to outline the agency’s responsibilities and the impact the firings would have on agency operations.

“Your hasty and unjustified mass firings are an illegal shutdown of the CFPB that will leave it unable to conduct agency actions that are required by law,” they wrote.

And they added, “We request that you provide—by April 30, 2025—a detailed accounting of each of the more than 80 statutory obligations of the CFPB, the number of employees assigned to each of those functions as of December 2024, the number of employees who would be assigned to each function if your rushed reduction in force were to go into effect, the immediate impact of such a reduction on the agency’s ability to perform each function consistent with federal law and federal court orders, and copies of any individualized or particularized analysis of those planned reductions on the agency’s work.”