One more federal employees union has secured a judge’s approval to file a new complaint against the recently inaugurated Trump government. This time, the complaint is directed towards the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), regarding the intentions to downsize the staff and revamp the agency’s extreme leftist policies.
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U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson has halted the CFPB from laying off more employees following the dismissal of numerous agency workers by the Trump administration. Among those let go were a complete team that monitored the financial products of prominent Big Tech companies. This ruling prevents the CFPB from carrying out any terminations, except for reasons related to job performance or misconduct, and halts any moves to lay off permanent agency staff.
Furthermore, the ruling prohibits the acting CFPB Director, Russ Vought, from initiating actions to cut off the agency’s funding, aligning with a similar ruling made by a federal judge in Baltimore the previous evening.
Here’s one of the union’s attorneys crowing about the order late on Friday:
In our suit over the CFPB, I’m thrilled to report that the court just issued an order against firings or reductions in force, destruction of data, or return of CFPB funds.
We had credible reports that RIFs were coming later today and that data destruction was imminent. pic.twitter.com/VbRzn0AC0Z
— Deepak Gupta (@deepakguptalaw) February 14, 2025
Readers might recall that after firing the agency’s director on Day One, President Trump named first Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as its acting director, then incoming director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Russell Vought, took his place days later.
Vought, as my colleague Streiff wrote, swiftly put things in motion to slow the agency’s actions to a crawl, bringing with him the DOGE team. The agency’s website even went dark.
But, Vought did one more thing–he informed Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell in a Feb. 8 email that CFPB would not accept the next drawdown of payments.
