A federal judge issued an order on Friday evening that temporarily halted the Trump administration from firing employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) without cause and from issuing a reduction-in-force notice for the agency.
According to combined media reports, US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson – an Obama appointee – has also prohibited the administration from deleting CFPB data. The judge’s order also blocks Acting CFPB Director Russ Vought from actions that would defund the agency.
The Trump administration agreed to the temporary restrictions while the judge more fully considers a lawsuit brought by the National Treasury Employees Union. Another hearing is set for March 3. The union was joined by the NAACP and several activist groups in seeking the court’s order, claiming the agency’s entire workforce faced a mass termination order.
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NAACP eh? Yea get Al Sharpton on the case….everyone is racist!!! Unless you donate to my fund, then you’re no longer racsit!! LOL in all honesty, the racist talk pretty much has zero effect on folks anymore, the’ve beaten that to death unfortunately. Anytime you hear the word racist come out of someone’s mouth, you can almost bet they’re completely brainwashed and regurgitating what they hear on MSNBC and it’s continually shrinking base.
Impeach the judge and move on. The federal government is a disgusting, corrupt left wing mess harming the Americanpeople. Trump was elected to undo 60 years of corruption. The judge was probably on the take.
Personally, I believe the record shows a lot of good came from CFPB involvement over the past few years regarding charges assessed by bankers and lenders. Their measures actually helped the consumer and forced disclosure of fees. Furthermore, they were extremely helpful with the housing crisis in 2010-11 by providing families with alternatives to hold on to, or exit their homestead without catastrophic consequences.
Actually Trump is the corruption. He convinced you of that with 6 bankruptcies, conning a university, children’s cancer charity, mocking the disabled…because he makes you feel good about being a racist bigot
AMEN DAVID
The Deep State money-sucking Federal Government has a lot of supporters, who may or may not have been profiting from the hidden money movements shown by DOGE moving public money into private pockets.
President Trump said he would end the Deep State and he has a short amount of time to do it. None of this is unanticipated.
To both we-the-people and Tom Washington—“if” you’re right then why haven’t either of you asked for the name/receipts of the people whose “pockets” these millions/billions of $ went into?? Did either of you get this very important information before you started your “standing ovation” for the doge-bros and their dear leader? And please don’t change the subject—just answer the question. Because just eradicating an entire governmental (duly established!) department by firing/laying off employees without proof of any wrongdoing….or even holding these federal employees accountable by “charging each of them with a crime”….any crime…doesn’t this speak volumes regarding the total “ineffectiveness” and deviancey of the DOGE-bros and “your” dear leader?
David and Vjsherm you are right on. These people following Trump remind me of the people who drank the Kool-Aid for Jim Jones promising a better place. We the People and Tom Washington think for yourselves. Elon is being investigated by the government for a multitude of things and he gets to go in and fire those people? Have you thought about these They have families but of course why would anyone who supports Trump worry about that? Trump doesn’t. Trump and his posse are a joke. He wasn’t a good businessman and he is a terrible President. Even the producers on The Apprentice had to redo his offices and make him look good and all of you people think that is why he is a good businessman. We need reform and to stop waste and spending but not on the backs of little people to hand more to the billionaires. Elon was not elected or vetted and should not be making decisions for the American people. I just hope this country survives the next 4 years of this joke of a president. The only thing he is doing is giving the racist bigots the right to say it out loud and line his rich friends pockets. Drink more of his Kool-Aid now We The People and Tom Washington because you won’t be laughing when they come after you!
Deb—perfect example! However, I would dare say that Jim Jones at least provided his “followers” with a bit more substance than the current US monster-in chief! Jones chose to use the initial “stolen life savings from his follows” to leave our country and create an exclusive, fully secluded, totally protected compound in a forign land specifically for him and his followers. A place where they could live, work, and of course, praise, honor and obey him everyday!
“we-the-people” and Tom Washington—I’m sorry—I may have missed it—was this also something that your great ORANGE leader promised to provide for you folks…on day 1????
If you’re a Realtor you might remember why the CFPB was organized in the first place. Too many big banks were cheating our real estate clients. Of all the people out there that should be supporting the CFPB we should be standing up!
Somehow there are a few people left who believe fighting endless wars is good, funding fraudulent organizations is moral, and the status quo must stay in place. If people you don’t like do good things, they are still good things. Wake up. We can’t continue on this road of debt and expect to have a good ending. DOGE is amazing. Now we need local DOGE in our cities, counties and towns!
There wasn’t much concern when workers were told during Covid that they weren’t ESSENTIAL WORKERS and they weren’t allowed to work!
The states and government shut down thousands of business’s in the name of Covid. There was no sympathy for those that were put out of work immediately.
Isn’t that interesting. They only care when they feel like it.
Judicial Over-reach. Plain and simple.
At least Jim Jones made sure they had shelter up until the mass suicide. When you bring consultants in, the hogs get richer. The poverty level supporters of the great tangerine didn’t comprehend that some of the cuts would impact them. They think the tariffs are great, they don’t realize that trying to quickly make things domestically, with today’s cost to update factories and pay current living wages will likely still make the imported goods more affordable. The towns that might get some new industry are going to have tax income, but in many cases their infrastructure won’t be able to handle the growth.
Buddy B
In reading several comments I see the continued bias that got this country where it is! Where do some of you believe the money is coming from to cut cost and streamline expenses! The business of government is out of business and is broke. Hard decisions have to be made and there will be casualties of war.
Not with guns but from layoffs and shut downs. There is and has been way too much waist on the federal level and NOW we find corruption! What in the world makes you think this is OK..
Spot on Buddy!
By waist do you mean they’ve been partaking of too much of the good stuff?
Exactly!!
Nailed it Buddy!!!
DOGE will come back and bite America and the common person, but Musk, trump & the other crooks will be laughing at America’s ignorance, lack of knowledge and passive behavior. It is only Democratic administrations that have ever reduced
the debt. Republicans have always increased the debt during their administrations. That is just a fact. Educate yourself. Ignorance is not bliss.
In addition to Joel’s true comment about debt, the WSJ just published an article about how there have been 10 Republican presidents and 9 Democratic Presidents since 1913. There was a recession in EVERY Republican administration and only 1 in the Democratic administrations (Carter’s). Expect a recession coming with increased costs via tariffs and less income due to the proposed tax breaks/extension of tax breaks. People are also boycotting companies and are hesitant to fly with the 9 accidents since 1/25/2025; this all affects GDP. The CFPB is a way for the consumer to be protected from excessive fees and scams. Why would someone object to that?