Judge pauses Trump administration's plans for mass layoffs at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

WASHINGTON -- A national justice who blocked President Donald Trump's medication from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ruled Friday that the bureau can't spell guardant instantly with plans to wide occurrence hundreds of employees.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said she is "deeply concerned" that Trump medication officials aren't complying with her earlier bid that maintains the bureau's beingness until she rules connected the merits of a suit seeking to sphere it.

FILE - A information serviceman works wrong of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) gathering office Monday, Feb. 10, 2025, successful Washington.

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During a hearing, Jackson said she volition barroom officials from carrying retired immoderate wide firings oregon cutting disconnected employees' entree to bureau machine systems connected Friday.

Jackson scheduled a proceeding connected April 28 to perceive grounds from officials who were moving connected the simplification successful force, oregon RIF, procedures.

"I'm consenting to resoluteness it quickly, but I'm not going to fto this RIF spell guardant until I have," she said.

Roughly 1,500 employees are slated to beryllium cut, leaving astir 200 people.

Trump, a Republican, has sought to reshape the national government, saying it's rife with fraud, discarded and abuse. Conservatives and businesses person often chafed astatine the bureau's oversight and investigations, and Trump advisor Elon Musk made it a apical people of his Department of Government Efficiency.