alsobrooks: mr. mckernan, this week a maryland veteran shared her story of why the cfpb matters. she served in iraq. she served her country as a veteran only to return home to spend over a year trying to resolve a car purchase scam she was involved in. after contacting the cfpb, her problem was resolved within eight days. one year without the cfpb and eight days with the cfpb. simply put, do you support maintaining funding for cfpb? mr. mckernan: as i've said, cfpb is a product or statute. it is a question for our elected leaders. i will say that i am committed to executing the statutory responsible of these assigned to him -- responsibilities assigned to me. sen. alsobrooks: do you support this is important to maintain funding? that is an answer -- that is a question you can answer. mr. mckernan: if we are going to have the cfpb as presently constituted, we will need funding to perform our statutory responsibilities. sen. alsobrooks: mr. kessler, do you agree that removing all or most of the control

alsobrooks: mr.ernan, this week a maryland veteran shared her story of why the cfpb matters. she served in iraq. she served her country as a veteran only to return home to spend over a year trying to resolve a car purchase scam she was involved in. after contacting the cfpb, her problem was resolved within eight days. one year without the cfpb and eight days with the cfpb. simply put, do you support maintaining funding for cfpb? mr. mckernan: as i've said, cfpb is a product or statute. it is a question for our elected leaders. i will say that i am committed to executing the statutory responsible of these assigned to him -- responsibilities assigned to me. sen. alsobrooks: do you support this is important to maintain funding? that is an answer -- that is a question you can answer. mr. mckernan: if we are going to have the cfpb as presently constituted, we will need funding to perform our statutory responsibilities. sen. alsobrooks: mr. kessler, do you agree that removing all or most of the controls fr

joining us now, democratic senator angela alsobrooks of maryland, a state particularly vulnerable to all the doge cuts because there are a lot of federal workers who live in maryland. and, of course, virginia and dc. senator, it's obviously not just federal workers. i want to play this moment from secretary of defense pete hegseth directing civilian pentagon employees to justify their jobs. >> i am now directing each. >> member of the department's civilian workforce, just civilian, to provide those five bullets on what they accomplished in their specific jobs. last week, to reply to that email and cc, their immediate supervisors. >> do you have any idea how many marylanders have been fired, and how is the overall economy of maryland being impacted by this? >> well, first of. >> all, let me say that we have about 160,000 marylanders who are part of the federal workforce, the civilians who make sure that our water is clean, the ones at nih and in other places that are leading scientific research. and let me just say this. i don't trust elon musk, and i don't trust doge. i don't trust a