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A letter sent Wednesday by Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden and Jack Reed cited ProPublica reporting on
how one DOGE aide assigned to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau helped oversee the mass layoffs of the agency’s staff while holding as much as $715,000 in stocks that bureau employees are prohibited from owning.

The DOGE aides’ cases “underscore what appears to be a pervasive problem with Elon Musk and DOGE employees trampling ethics rules and laws to benefit their own pockets at the expense of the American public,”
the lawmakers said in the letter.

Warren and Reed sit on the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.

Wyden is the ranking member of the chamber’s Committee on Finance.

The letter asked Attorney General Pam Bondi,
the Office of Government Ethics and three inspectors general with jurisdiction over the CFPB, Treasury and IRS
to investigate the DOGE aides' finances, including whether they’d appropriately divested from any conflicted holdings, and their specific work at the agencies.

“The American people deserve answers regarding whether their own interests may have been undermined by Trump Administration officials that acted in violation of federal ethics laws,”
the letter said.

https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-aides-conflict-of-interest-senators-letter