A Charlotte Regulator Gets DOGE’d
Jack Cobb, a lifelong Republican with decades of blue-chip legal experience, decided to move into consumer protection last year. Then Elon Musk took a chainsaw to his agency.


Attorney Jack Cobb in Charlotte on March 27, 2025. (Travis Dove for The Assembly)

Jack Cobb closed his work laptop at about 8 p.m. on a cold and drizzly February night in south Charlotte and stirred up an old fashioned. He settled into his couch with a book that stretched his understanding of faith and values, Dominion, which traces 2,000 years of Christianity’s command over the Western world. Cobb was somewhere around the turn of the first millennium when his phone buzzed.

The caller was his colleague and close friend at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

“You gotta be shitting me,” he said out loud. Jack’s wife, Kimberly, looked up from across the living room. They both had a pretty good hunch that by the time he hung up, Jack, a 62-year-old lawyer with a sterling resume and decades of experience, would be out of a job.

Cobb gave up a lucrative role in private practice in 2024 to take a pay cut and enter civil service. He hoped the CFPB, which aims to give ordinary consumers an advocate in disputes against larger financial institutions, would provide him a fulfilling final career chapter.
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