New CFPB leadership agrees to hold off on mass firings while lawsuit proceeds
Lawyers representing the acting director of the CFPB reached an agreement during a court conference Friday to temporarily ...
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Federal Workers Rise up Against Musk, Trump and Drastic Cuts
Chris Dols was one of hundreds who flooded to the streets of Washington, D.C. this week to protest the shutdown of the ...
We May Be a Month Away From Republicans Shutting Down a Government They Control
The U.S. has roughly one month until the government runs out of money, and the talks to avoid that are a mess, writes Philip ...
Nearly 10,000 fired as Trump, Musk step up assault on US agencies
Aside from job cuts, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are cutting jobs, weakening civil-service protections, freezing US foreign aid, and trying to shut down agencies like USAID and the CFPB ...
What does having the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on hold mean for consumers?
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the latest U.S. government agency to have its work halted by the Trump administration ...
Consumer watchdog agency called ‘vicious’ by Trump seen as a ‘hero’ to many it aided
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is in the crosshairs of a White House that has halted its work, closed its ...
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 temporarily blocks mass terminations at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
A judge said in a ruling Friday that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could not terminate employees without cause, ...
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Courts block Trump's DOGE actions — chaos, panic not proving to be best legal strategy
It is a historic power grab by the president. But the chaotic approach also may be undermining his chances of getting the ...
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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.
The Latest: Federal workers face mass layoffs
Federal workers all over the country responded with anger and confusion Friday toward President Donald Trump and his administration’s aggressive effort to shrink the size of the federal workforce by o ...