Judge blocks mass layoffs at consumer protection agency targeted by Trump
The Trump administration has agreed to pause its campaign of layoffs and funding cuts at the Consumer Financial Protection ...
Judge Orders Freeze on Firing Consumer Bureau’s Staff and Deleting Its Data
Agency workers, including some who were listening to the hearing remotely, expressed immediate joy and relief.
Judge Halts CFPB Action After Alleged Plans to Delete Database
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to delay the deletion of data after the agency’s ...
CFPB Agrees to Pause Rumored Workforce Layoffs, Data Purge (1)
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employees got at least a two-week reprieve from an expected culling of the workforce ...
The technology team at financial regulator CFPB has been gutted
Around 20 technologists at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were fired on Thursday evening, gutting a team that ...
Judge temporarily halts mass firings at CFPB, preserves agency data
A federal judge Friday temporarily stopped the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from continuing mass firings of employees, throwing up an initial roadblock to President Donald Trump’s fast-moving ...
Trump administration fires thousands of federal workers
The Trump administration moved swiftly to lay off thousands of government employees in at least seven agencies Thursday, initiating a new and more aggressive phase of its push to shrink the federal ...
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Another day, another activist judge: Trump blocked from firing CFPB employees
An Obama judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from firing Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) employees.
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Judge blocks mass layoffs at consumer protection agency targeted by Trump
In a court filing Friday, the agency’s former chief technologist, Erie Meyer, warned of an “imminent risk that twelve years’ of critical CFPB records, which belong to the public, will be ...