A judge froze the Trump administration’s plan to fire a majority of employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson stopped the administration’s effort, the latest development in a legal seesaw battle that has seen plans to dismantle or cut back the CFPB started and stopped several times. Last week, Jackson ruled that President Donald Trump could downsize the agency but not dismantle it altogether. She voiced concern with the Thursday move to cut 1,500 employees from the bureau, leaving just 200.
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