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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) -- the government watchdog charged with safeguarding American consumers’ finances -- has come to a virtual standstill Saturday night, according to an internal email obtained by ABC News.

The email sent late Saturday night directs all CFPB staff to "cease all supervision and examination activity" and "cease all stakeholder engagement" effective immediately. The agency’s website shows an error message and its X account was also taken down.

The email was sent by Russell Vought, the newly confirmed director of the Office of Management and Budget, who is also now the acting director of the CFPB. Vought was an architect of "Project 2025."

In a post on X, Vought said the CFPB’s funding, which comes through the Federal Reserve, is "now being turned off."

Vought's internal email also says that, unless approved by him or required by law, employees, contractors and other personnel of the CFPB cannot issue any proposed or final rules, open any new investigations or issue any public communications.

On Friday, Elon Musk tweeted "CFPB RIP." Sources previously told ABC News that staffers for Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency had gained access to internal systems at the CFPB.

The CFPB is a regulatory agency established by law after the 2008 financial crisis.

The agency says, since its creation in 2011, it has returned nearly $21 billion to American consumers.

Under the Biden administration, the CFPB took aggressive steps to take on the banking and financial services industries, issuing rules that would cap credit card overdraft fees and remove medical debt from Americans’ credit reports.

-ABC News' Elizabeth Schulze, Will Steakin and Katherine Faulders

Despite verbal assurances from Secretary of State Marco Rubio about allowing lifesaving humanitarian aid to continue, international aid and development work funded by the U.S. government have almost entirely come to a halt, multiple leaders in humanitarian aid confirmed to ABC News.

Many organizations say they are now worried food from U.S. farmers that had been designated for some of the poorest countries and programs to help malnourished children in conflict zones is at risk of perishing.

One humanitarian aid leader, who asked that ABC News not use their name as many organizations are worried about retribution from the Trump administration, described sitting on over 1,000 tons of food in Mozambique that needs to be distributed.

-ABC News' MaryAlice Parks

The Kennedy Center released a statement on Saturday in response to President Donald Trump's baseless claim that he fired the organization's chairman and took over.

"We have received no official communications from the White House regarding changes to our board of trustees. We are aware that some members of our board have received termination notices from the administration," it said.

Trump's claim is baseless as the federal law governing the Kennedy Center states, "The Board shall appoint and fix the compensation and duties of a Chairperson of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, who shall serve as the chief executive officer of the Center, and a Secretary of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The Chairperson and Secretary shall be well qualified by experience and training to perform the duties of their respective offices."

The Kennedy Center also noted federal funding covers roughly 16% of the total operating budget.

"Support for the Center’s artistic programming comes from ticket sales, donations, rental income, and other revenue sources," it said.

-ABC News' Karen Travers and Terry Moran

A federal judge in New York granted the states suing over DOGE a temporary restraining order.

“The Court’s firm assessment is that, for the reasons stated by the States, they will face irreparable harm in the absence of injunctive relief. That is both because of the risk that the new policy presents of the disclosure of sensitive and confidential information and the heightened risk that the systems in question will be more vulnerable than before to hacking,” Judge Paul Engelmayer wrote.

New York Attorney General Letitia James hailed the decision on X.

“This morning, we won a court order blocking Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, from accessing Americans’ private data. Musk and his DOGE employees must destroy all records they've obtained.”