EXCLUSIVE: Luxurious Newly Renovated CFPB Headquarters Is Infested By Rats

Richard Pollock

Rats — actual rodents — are infesting the newly renovated Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s headquarters, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. Hundreds of the agency’s employees moved into their beautiful $124 million headquarters across the street from the White House in October as construction was still underway. Upon entering, they discovered rats also were making it their home, according to two sources who spoke to TheDCNF on the condition of anonymity. Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) when she was serving in the Department of the Treasury during former President Barack Obama’s administration. The bureau’s mandate is to protect consumers, but it seems to be running into problems protecting its employees. “Right from the start there were reports of rats in the building,” one employee told TheDCNF in an interview. “There were rat sightings. One person had a rat in her trash can, and they couldn’t get it out. Rat feces were on the floor and on people’s desks. Rats are running across people’s feet when they’re sitting there trying to work,” he said. A CFPB spokesman confirmed rats do indeed run throughout parts of the building. “The Bureau identified an issue with rodents appearing in some areas of the building, due in part to the ongoing construction in the basement and ground level areas,” he told TheDCNF in a statement. Another source told TheDCNF rat traps can be found on all six floors of the building...more

Traps!

How cruel.

Did they comply with NEPA? Was there an opportunity for public comment? Surely the anti-trapping coalition is protesting this.