{"id":978,"date":"2025-03-29T00:52:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T00:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2025\/03\/29\/judge-blocks-trump-administration-from-dismantling-cfpb-the-new-york-times\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T00:52:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T00:52:53","slug":"judge-blocks-trump-administration-from-dismantling-cfpb-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2025\/03\/29\/judge-blocks-trump-administration-from-dismantling-cfpb-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Dismantling CFPB &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"site-content\">\n<div id=\"in-story-masthead\">\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/politics\">Politics<\/a><\/span><span>|<\/span><span>Judge Grants Injunction to Prevent Consumer Bureau From Being \u2018Dissolved and Dismantled\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/28\/us\/politics\/trump-cfpb-ruling.html<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article id=\"story\">\n<div id=\"top-wrapper\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/#after-top\">SKIP ADVERTISEMENT<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 data-testid=\"headline\">Judge Grants Injunction to Prevent Consumer Bureau From Being \u2018Dissolved and Dismantled\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>The bureau has been in turmoil as the Trump administration moved to fire hundreds of employees, ordered the rest to stop working and closed offices.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\">\n<div data-testid=\"imageContainer-children-Image\"><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 3dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 288dpi)\" ><source media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 2dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 192dpi)\" ><source media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 1dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 96dpi)\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"People hold signs that read \u201cThe CFPB fights for you\u201d and Save the Civil Service, Save the Country!\u201d\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/28\/multimedia\/28trump-news-cfpb-ruling1-cqzk\/28trump-news-cfpb-ruling1-cqzk-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&#038;auto=webp&#038;disable=upscale\"   decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"><\/picture><\/div><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-ImageCaption\"><span>Protesters outside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau offices in Washington on Monday.<\/span><span><span>Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Alex Wong\/Getty Images<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><time datetime=\"2025-03-28T18:59:52-04:00\">March 28, 2025, <span>6:59 p.m. ET<\/span><\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section name=\"articleBody\">\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<p>A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Friday blocking the Trump administration from carrying out mass firings or otherwise dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>Calling the injunction \u201can extraordinary step,\u201d Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the Federal District Court in Washington said she imposed it to prevent the agency from being \u201cdissolved and dismantled.\u201d The lawsuit\u2019s plaintiffs \u2014 the bureau\u2019s staff union and a collection of consumer advocates \u2014 are likely to succeed in their claim that the administration\u2019s actions to gut the agency were illegal, the judge wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287\/gov.uscourts.dcd.277287.87.0_1.pdf\" title rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a 112-page decision<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis ruling upholds the Constitution\u2019s separation of powers and preserves the bureau\u2019s vital work,\u201d said Deepak Gupta, the lawyer representing the union. Representatives of the consumer bureau did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The bureau, created after the 2008 financial crisis, has been in turmoil since Feb. 7, when President Trump appointed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/28\/us\/politics\/trump-budget-cuts-russell-vought.html\" title>Russell T. Vought<\/a>, the director of the White House budget office, as the agency\u2019s acting director. Mr. Vought quickly fired hundreds of employees, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/09\/business\/vought-cfpb-musk-trump.html\" title>ordered the rest to stop all work<\/a>, closed the bureau\u2019s offices and canceled contracts with vendors for staffing and services that are essential to the agency\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<p>But only Congress can close the bureau, and parts of the agency have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/15\/business\/trump-cfpb.html\" title>flicked back to life<\/a> over the past seven weeks in response to legal challenges. Nearly 200 terminated employees have been rehired, and some of the agency\u2019s departments have returned to work to carry out the bureau\u2019s legally mandated responsibilities. Most of the staff, however, has remained on administrative leave.<\/p>\n<p>For years, the financial industry has complained that the consumer bureau, which regulates a range of lending activity from mortgages to credit cards, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/01\/business\/rohit-chopra-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-wallstreet.html\" title>has been overly aggressive<\/a>, tying up companies in litigation and red tape and hindering credit from flowing to consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Jackson wrote that Mr. Vought\u2019s actions \u201cwere taken in complete disregard for the decision Congress made 15 years ago\u201d to create the agency and assign it the power to monitor banks and other lenders and enforce consumer protection laws. Without an injunction, she said, the government would likely \u201ccomplete the destruction of the agency completely in violation of law\u201d and annihilate it so thoroughly that \u201cit will be impossible to rebuild.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The judge opened her ruling with three epigraphs quoting senior administration officials \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/joeygarrison\/status\/1889132023933022283?Mx=2\" title rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">including Mr. Trump himself<\/a> \u2014 openly stating their intention to destroy the bureau. (\u201cThat was a very important thing to get rid of,\u201d Mr. Trump said in early February, praising Mr. Vought\u2019s actions.)<\/p>\n<p>Judge Jackson\u2019s order instructs the government to reinstate and preserve the bureau\u2019s contracts, employees, data and operations while the case progresses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div>\n<p>Stacy Cowley is a business reporter who writes about a broad array of topics related to consumer finance, including student debt, the banking industry and small business.<span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/stacy-cowley\">More about Stacy Cowley<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bottom-wrapper\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/#after-bottom\">SKIP ADVERTISEMENT<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics|Judge Grants Injunction to Prevent Consumer Bureau From Being \u2018Dissolved and Dismantled\u2019 https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/28\/us\/politics\/trump-cfpb-ruling.html Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Judge Grants Injunction to Prevent Consumer Bureau From Being \u2018Dissolved and Dismantled\u2019 The bureau has been in turmoil as the Trump administration moved to fire hundreds of employees, ordered the rest to stop working and closed offices. 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