Former CFPB Employee Announces Democratic Bid for Maryland Seat

Alexis Goldstein, a former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee, was fired in February 2026 for recording DOGE’s incursion into the agency. U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat in Maryland's 6th congressional district against incumbent April McClain Delaney.

The district has a lot of government workers. The encounter that led to her dismissal occurred in February 2025, when DOGE operatives arrived at the CFPB on February 6. Goldstein had just dropped her toddler off at day care and was on her way back into the office, pushing her stroller through the basement, when she saw people without CFPB badges who had a CFPB computer.

The group included members of DOGE, specifically Jordan Wick and Jeremy Lewin, who is almost 30 years old and dismantled USAID. Goldstein used her phone to document the group by taking pictures that included computer screens, filming through a window with her phone in the cupholder until they moved to a room without a window.

She then introduced herself, asked who they were, and questioned if they had proper training to handle sensitive information.

Jeremy Lewin ran into the corner, and they called security on Goldstein. CFPB leadership alleged that Goldstein violated agency information security rules due to the pictures including computer screens. She was placed on administrative leave for a year, with the limbo becoming specific around May 2025.

A third of the CFPB workforce was fired the week after her initial situation. The case went to the DC Circuit, and workers awaited their decision. The inspector general asked to speak to Goldstein at the end of June 2025, in an interview she described as hostile, where they suggested her actions were as bad as DOGE's.